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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Mar 29, 2024 19:54:12 GMT
Alphabet imbalance. I know I am not the only one, that this happens to. I have three boxes of the exact same K and Co chipboard alphabet, from years(decades?) past. I opened them the other day, to put them in alphabetical order, so I can make some words. Among the assortment of letters, there are: 5 - E 4 - S 3 - C 4 - R 8 - T 8 - A 15 - X 19 - Z 10 - Q 15 - V How and why.....are alphabet quantities determined?  Thankfully I found a couple boxes on ebay and they are on the way. Hopefully that will help increase the numbers of the most commonly used letters. |
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petscrapper
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Post by petscrapper on Mar 29, 2024 20:04:37 GMT
One of the big reasons I stopped buying alphabets is because there’s never enough vowels. I try to use the odd alphas I have as the first letter of a title, name, etc.
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Post by AussieMeg on Mar 30, 2024 0:43:46 GMT
Oh boy, I remember the struggle of alphabet imbalance from when I was a paper scrapper! There were never enough Es and never enough 2s. Ugh.
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Post by artisticscrapper on Mar 30, 2024 3:28:42 GMT
I actually got pretty good at repurposing letters. Carefully cutting and gluing could turn a c into an e or a Q into an O. This is why I like my alpha dies.
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Post by grammadee on Mar 30, 2024 14:17:27 GMT
I love letter stickers and thickers, but the distribution of letters is a challenge. I often wonder if it is a factor of the situation where the people putting these together do not have English as a first language--or even our alphabet as a familiar written language. Imagine being given the Cyrillic set of letters and trying to decide how many of each a Russian or Ukrainian would need to spell common words? Let alone a set of Mandarin symbols? I am always happy when I find a set with lots of E's. Like artisticscrapper , I often re engineer some letters. F + L = E; P + K = R. m- one hump is an n. A flipped Z is an N... Upside down V with an amputated piece of a z makes a great A. Lower case n's and u's are interchangeable (and yes, as a Canadian, I need way more u's than our neighb ours to the south LOL) |
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Post by artbabe on Mar 30, 2024 14:52:44 GMT
A lot of times I'll buy two packs of alphabets if I really like the font.
I do like the little Doodlebug puffy alphabets because there are so many letters.
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Post by joblackford on Mar 30, 2024 18:31:41 GMT
I love letter stickers and thickers, but the distribution of letters is a challenge. I often wonder if it is a factor of the situation where the people putting these together do not have English as a first language--or even our alphabet as a familiar written language. Imagine being given the Cyrillic set of letters and trying to decide how many of each a Russian or Ukrainian would need to spell common words? Let alone a set of Mandarin symbols? I am always happy when I find a set with lots of E's. Like artisticscrapper , I often re engineer some letters. F + L = E; P + K = R. m- one hump is an n. A flipped Z is an N... Upside down V with an amputated piece of a z makes a great A. Lower case n's and u's are interchangeable (and yes, as a Canadian, I need way more u's than our neighb ours to the south LOL) Yes! It can also depend on the kinds of words you use, and where you live. I know people here have said they have a Q or Z in their name so they appreciate those letters more. I started out scrapping Japanese place names like Kumamoto and Kyoto and Okayama and Hanayama. Needless to say I switched to stamping titles because I could use all of the A and O stickers in a pack on one title. One or two weird titles in any language can destroy a sticker sheet, so I don’t think there’s any ideal distribution. And for manufacturers it’s more about selling the stickers… as long as the set LOOKS useful on the shelf… Although I always thought that they should have a lot more 1s and 2s for dates, especially after PL became a thing. I would’ve happily bought a set that had extras of the first letters of the days of the week and a full page of 1s and 2s when I was doing PL. |
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Post by 950nancy on Mar 31, 2024 22:25:33 GMT
Try Wordfinder (or other sites) that can help you find words with the letters you have. Fifteen "V's" might be an issue!
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