Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

Bet you are all Carter Ruckers!

Wash your mouth out, Miss Anna!!!!!

[Angle]

I thought you'd be at least as far as M by now as I have been out all afternoon. Well, Vinteuil, I doubt if I could ever have got the full G but congrats on a real puzzle.

I shall give H a bit of thought so you might have to ewait a while. Happily enough, Anna and Caliban are quite able to fill the time until I get
back.

[Anna]

Wash your mouth out, Miss Anna!!!!!

<dissolves into hopeless giggle emoticon stuff> Whilst thinking of lawyers (do you know, they haunt my dreams)

[Angle]

After some quick work, I have managed an easy one for you.


What H is

notably, an ornamental bird-song cut short
a pleasing Cameronian symphonic fraction
a form of sustenance which is an improvement on nothing at all

I'll be around, popping in now and then, but I have to eat soon.

[Angle]

It is nearly time for me to endure Spiral III. I shall be back afterwards but in the meantime I have noticed an unintentional hyphen in element one, so here are all again

What H is

notably, an ornamental bird song cut short
a pleasing Cameronian symphonic fraction
a form of sustenance which is an improvement on nothing at all

[Simon]

Half must come into this somewhere shurely.

[rubbernecker]

Half must come into this somewhere shurely.

I have been thinking the same, but it is now far too late so I will take this particlar bone to my bed to gnaw on overnight

[mercia]

I keep reading fraction as 'fragment' for some reason

if half is correct, how about half-baked for the sustenance?

[vinteuil]

I keep reading fraction as 'fragment' for some reason

if half is correct, how about half-baked for the sustenance?

or perhaps "half a loaf" (is better than no bread at all)

and for an ornamental bird cut short - peacock - going off at half-cock?

But ca'n't find anything musical in any of this so far....

[Angle]

Two of the three elements are musical

[mercia]

ornamental bird

Wood Dove?
Firebird?
Peacock?

[Angle]

Hi mercia, a lovely day.

Someone has suggested, correctly, that H=half.

Vinteuil was correct with half a loaf (is better than no loaf) for element 3

The first two elements are musical

The second one is a symphony and Cameronian relates to a place of birth.

The first one contains three clues to something which is hardly different from a whole one. I don't know how it could be, really.

I shall be going out shortly and hope that it can all be solved before I do.

[mercia]

hope that it can all be solved before I do.

not by me I'm afraid
yes it is a lovely day
hope you have a nice rest of the day Angle

[Anna]

I'm afraid I am getting nowhere with this question. Thinking half-moon, halfpenny, halfsovereign, (Half a Sixpence is musical but not a symphony) or is it half in a different language? Cameron was born in London, place unspecified, so that draws a blank as well. Ornamental bird song, also clueless about this. Sorry Angle!

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm afraid I am getting nowhere with this question. Thinking half-moon, halfpenny, halfsovereign, (Half a Sixpence is musical but not a symphony) or is it half in a different language? Cameron was born in London, place unspecified, so that draws a blank as well. Ornamental bird song, also clueless about this. Sorry Angle!

Same here and going to be immersed for the next couple of hours in the apparently exciting events on the Grand Prix track in China earlier today...