Friday 29 April 2011

Y is for ... ???

Thanks to all who dropped by yesterday! The answer to yesterday's post was, XENOPHOBIA. Haha. If you don't get the sex change bit of the riddle, it's because usually in Greek, words that end in 'a', are feminine (we're talking grammar here), and words that end in 'o' are masculine. So instead of 'xena', it's 'xeno' :o) hehe. Okay, yeah, I'm losing it ... *dum da dum dum ...

Another riddle:

A noun that sounds like a verb about gaining knowledge with a speach impediment.

PS: Nicole, sorry for abandoning the fiction excerpts!!! :-/ I'll try and do a great piece for tomorrow's sign off! :o)

So, can you guess the emotion/feeling/state of mind (a noun) depicted in this piece that begins with the letter ‘Y’? Please nip over to Nicole's blog to read her interpretation of our Y-prompt word. Here’s the link!



 

25 comments:

  1. Oh shoot, you got me on this one Jessica. I know other's will come along with the answer, but for the life of me I can't think of a thing.

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  2. This is tough and Nicole hasn't posted yet to help, lol! My guess then is Yearning. Your riddles are great, Jessica!

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  3. You've stumped me. Yammer? Yodel? (don't know how either of those gain knowledge, but I like them)

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  4. This riddle's funny! Your cleverness shines through in everything you do. No need to apologize, btw. Especially today -- I posted something I wrote last year! It's almost over...hang in there!!!! :D

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  5. Yearning uh . . . yeilding . . . sheesh girl, I have no idea.

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  6. Uh. Y.... Nope. Have no clue. I just keep thinking of Colin Firth in The King's Speech.

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  7. I'm with Angela - is it yearning?

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  8. OMG, I have no idea!

    Plus, I don't know what bullet candies are, LOL! ;)

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  9. Is it Yttrium?

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  10. Yearning? "Learning" with speech impediment?

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  11. If I may post about the letter Y:
    http://amerikanrambler.blogspot.com/2009/10/y.html

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  12. Yikes! LOL I have no clue what the answer is but I think it has something to do with the way speach is spelled.

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  13. Not even a inkling Jessica.

    Yvonne,

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  14. Not even a inkling Jessica.

    Yvonne,

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  15. Yammer, yearn, yowl, Yiddish, Yemen...wait, what was the clue again?

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  16. I'd have to say yearning too.

    You don't make these easy, do you?! :)

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  17. Well, with your post and Nicole's, I'm going to have to go with yearning. =)

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  18. I agree, yearning. Love the riddles, although today it took both yours and Nicole's post for me to come up with an answer.

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  19. Yeeeyyyyuuuu.... no idea!
    (It's Friday. Come on! The brain cells are off duty now!)

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  20. OH! Yearning! How could I not have guessed on Nicole's blog?

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  21. Dear Lord! I have no idea. Yarble? Is that even a word? If not, it should be!

    One more day!

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  22. Yearn. Though Barbra Streisand's character did yearn to learn knowledge in Yentl.

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  23. What a different life from Melbourne to Greece. I saw your retreat information on your other website.

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  24. YEARNING...

    I'm yearning a lot from you. (;

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