Lost Consonants
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Lost Consonants is a comic collage series made by Faculty of Arts (University of Brighton) lecturer Graham Rawle
(examples can be found here http://www.grahamrawle.com/lostconsonants/examples/01.html), appearing in Britain's Guardian
and Observer
newspapers, where a single consonant is missing from a normal sentence, creating a humorous effect.
For example, the proverb "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" is missing the final H, giving "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bus", leading to a picture of two birds sitting on a bus.
Graham Rawle
Graham Rawle is a UK writer and collage artist whose visual work incorporates illustration, design, photography and installation. His weekly Lost Consonants series appeared in the Weekend Guardian for 15 years...
(examples can be found here http://www.grahamrawle.com/lostconsonants/examples/01.html), appearing in Britain's Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
and Observer
The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,...
newspapers, where a single consonant is missing from a normal sentence, creating a humorous effect.
For example, the proverb "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" is missing the final H, giving "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bus", leading to a picture of two birds sitting on a bus.