Friday, January 29, 2010

A Bit 'Bout Bs

The letter B is the second letter in the Latin alphabet, or the American alphabet if referring to alphabet as Latin confuses or offends you. It's the letter grade overachievers never want to receive in school because it lowers their GPA and underachievers never want to receive in school because it's impossible to turn into an A without whiteout and some serious bolding. It's also the letter grade that will cause you to pause before entering a restaurant if posted outside. "I'm sure their ice machine was just broken on the day of the inspection. Bad luck!"

For those of you unfamiliar with the letter B here's a uppercase one: B
and a lowercase one: b.
They look about the same.

Here they are bigger and bolder: B and b.
Get out some paper and try drawing them on your own. If you can't figure it out, hold your paper up to the screen and trace it until you get it.

This is a lowercase D: d.
Don't get confused. I hear a lot of people mistake these two letters. I'm sure there is a clever way to remember the difference between lowercase Bs and Ds that they teach children in elementary school but I don't know it, because I only confuse lowercase Bs and Ps. So, just don't be dumb, figure it out. There you go, they both point to the outside of the word 'dumb'. How's that for helpful? I just hope you can spell.

Plural of B is Bs or bes, but not bees, that's a bug.

Bumblebees bitch 'bout buzzing when blarringly bright because they are blind.
The sentence 'bove has 9 Bs/bes in it. Can you find them?

B is also the name of a woman but usually it is spelled Bea and is referring to a man in a dress.

Like A, B is also a word but it's easier to tell in a sentence because an E follows it, or two if you're talking about the bugs.

Don't make any bets during B weeks you'll lose billions of bucks! (There are no numbers except billion with the letter b in it.)

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