10 Metaphors for w
"W is a hard letter," said Miss Bidwell, laying down one of the perpetual stockings with which she seemed always supplied for mending purposes; "you will have to rip this out again; the first stroke is too near the letter before it;" and she handed the unhappy sampler back to the child.
"W-w-why, y-y-you s-s-see, It-that is, there's s-s-somebodyoh!
W was a watch, Where, in letters of gold, The hour of the day You might always behold.
W WAS IST DAS? allemand pour: QU'EST-CE.
But this compromise, as between us, Mr. W, must be a finality.
W WAS IST DAS? allemand pour: QU'EST-CE.
Annie W ... was a young Christian.
5.Murray's rule, "W and y are consonants when they begin a word or syllable, but in every other situation they are vowels," which is found in Comly's book, Kirkham's, Merchant's, Ingersoll's, Fisk's.
Old W was a little, busy, cringing tradesman, who, with his son upon his arm, would stand bowing and scraping, cap in hand, to any-thing that wore the semblance of a gowninsensible to the winks and opener remonstrances of the young man, to whose chamber-fellow, or equal in standing, perhaps, he was thus obsequiously and gratuitously ducking.
4.Some teach that w and y are always vowels: conceiving the former to be equivalent to oo, and the latter to i or e. Dr. Lowth says, "Y is always a vowel," and "W is either a vowel or a diphthong.