E is for Elephant

When I started doing these little Etsy Alphabet Treasuries with the hidden shapes I realised the most tricky of all to complete would be "E". If it was possible to pick 15 objects then no problem but as we only have 12 to play with you will have to forgive me if the shape doesn't quite reveal itself as well in this one.

E is for Elephant

"E, the first letter of the alphabet, is the most common (or highest frequency) letter in the English alphabet (starting off the typographer's phrase ETAOIN SHRDLU) and several other European languages, which has implications in both cryptography and data compression. This makes it a hard and popular letter to use when writing lipograms. Ernest Vincent Wright's Gadsby (1939), is considered a "dreadful" novel, and that "at least part of Wright's narrative issues were caused by language limitations imposed by the lack of E."^[7] Both Georges Perec's novel A Void (La Disparition) (1969) and its English translation by Gilbert Adair omit ‹e› and are considered better works"

 

High fives as usual for first to say what they see.

D is for Dog

The fourth in my alphabetical tour of Etsy and you have prob got the idea by now, but again there are virtual high fives to those who spot the hidden shape in the images above.
"probably developed from the logogram for a fish or a door. There are various Egyptian hieroglyphs that might have inspired this. The equivalent Greek letter is Delta, ‹Δ›."

D is for Dog

C is for Cat

The third in my alphabetical series of all things great on Etsy. As usual there is a very easy hidden shape above to spot. Virtual High 5's all round to those who spot.

"C comes from the same letter as ‹g›. The Semites named it gimel. The sign is possibly adapted from an Egyptian hieroglyph for a staff sling, which may have been the meaning of the name gimel. Another possibility is that it depicted a camel, the Semitic name for which was gamal."

C is for Cat




B is for Ball

The second in my series of alphabetical treasuries.


"B is the second letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. It is used to represent a variety of bilabial sounds (depending on language), most commonly a voiced bilabial plosive." I have no idea what that means...

Hope you can tell the word in each choice above. You should hopefully also be able to spot a pattern in the layout of the coloured items. First to spot wins a virtual thumbs up.

Here is the link: B is for Ball

A is for Apple

I've decided to put together a treasury once a week on an alphabetic theme. First up funnily enough is A.

"A is the first letter and a vowel in the basic modern Latin alphabet. It is similar to the Ancient Greek letter Alpha. It can be traced to a pictogram of an ox head in Egyptian hieroglyph."

Hope you can tell the word in each choice above. You should hopefully also be able to sport a pattern in the layout of the coloured items. First to spot wins a virtual high five.

Here is the link: A is for Apple