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November 01, 2020, 04:16
BobHale
Just 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?


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
November 01, 2020, 13:36
haberdasher
Sounds 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
Geoff
Isn't Wednesday humpf day?
November 01, 2020, 19:31
Kalleh
Not familiar to me...
November 01, 2020, 23:58
BobHale
It'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/


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
November 02, 2020, 06:12
Geoff
I'd never heard of it! Thanks for the education!
November 02, 2020, 19:45
Kalleh
Me either, and I thought I knew all the Dr. Seuss books. You are right, Bob, they are very popular here.