The S Sense Of It All

S, obviously, is the snake-shaped letter, and I personally can never inscribe an S upon my page without visualizing this wriggling, seductive letter clasped to Cleopatra's heaving, dusky and ample bosom.

So we should not be suprised that the Semitic world knew S as the sound 'sin', which, funnily enough, is the old Hebrew word for "Cleopatra's heaving, dusky and ample bosom."

The Greeks, typically, called S 'sigma', which means "The Socratic method", apparently an ancient form of birth control practised in the labyrinth of back alleys winding around the Athenian agora.

In Latin, three S's in a row was - and remains - classical shorthand for "stra'tum super stra'tum", meaning "layer over layer" in our modern language. It was, naturally, the cry of itinerant onion vendors in Roman streets during the dictatorship of Ludicro Maximus Vegetanius.

Note: If you would like to complain about my exposition of the alphabet, please feel free to air your grievances in the comments section below, as so many others have already felt obliged to do.

Comments

[DarkoV]

Firstly, countering the complaining nabobs, keep on alphabeteulogizin'. Clever is always in demand.
Secondly, re. the word "sin". Is the definition you provided, "Cleopatra's heaving, dusky and ample bosom", for the word the actual wording from an Old Hebrew dictionary? Or have you amplified Cleo's bosom with your own verbal Wonder Bra? Just wodering if this would be the first catalogued coupling of "heaving" and "bosom".
Thirdly, another log in the fire re. the dastardliness of the letter "S".
The "SS". I'm trembling AND heaving.

[stephenesque]

Hebrew dictionary only implies that Cleopatra's bosom is enormous. I am applying a little art in my translation.

[Misspent]

I was hoping you would comment on the dastardly little JV between S and H. I thought you could have a lot of fun playing around with that shi