November 01, 2020, 04:16
BobHaleJust came across this
I wonder if this is more familiar to my US friends than it was to me. I just came across it in a podcast.
What is the next in this sequence...
yuzz, wum, um, humpf, fuddle, glik ...
and how many items are there altogether in the sequence?
November 01, 2020, 13:36
haberdasherSounds like days of the week, or integers starting at zero (or maybe at one), or perhaps months of the year, in a language I don’t know. But that’s by induction, not knowledge.
November 01, 2020, 15:14
GeoffIsn't Wednesday humpf day?
November 01, 2020, 23:58
BobHaleIt's from a Dr Seuss book called On Beyond Zebra in which he invents twenty new letters to go after Z and twenty new animals whose names begin with those letters. As Dr Seuss is not commonly known in the UK I wondered if this book was known in the US where Dr Seuss is far more widely read. (For the record the letter after Glik is Nuh)
http://kuny.ca/blogs/2015/1104...uss-on-beyond-zebra/November 02, 2020, 06:12
GeoffI'd never heard of it! Thanks for the education!
November 02, 2020, 19:45
KallehMe either, and I thought I knew all the Dr. Seuss books. You are right, Bob, they are very popular here.