I’d much rather be penning a literary sisterpiece, but when De Jackson of dVerse Poets suggested a quadrille (uniquely 44 words only) to contain the Jabber, I jived into jollity like jocund Jupiter, and with a juddering sigh j’ai jerked into poetic jinx. Jitteringly printed on Juniper-berry background.
I once confessed about my three J’s (in bold) to my meditation teacher Jock, who jingled jauntily. Now a fourth… as the forty-fourth.
Jabber-jockey
Mindfully I noted, yet again
Jargonish J's Juxtaposed in brain:
J for Judging, when points the finger;
and Justifying, meanly linger
O Jasmine-flavoured J for Juggling
(Jumbled multi-tasking, Jeopardy-struggling).
Jess tick ulate "Mamma mia, it's ABBA!"
I'd best shut up, lest J for Jabber
Copyright Kathy Labrum McVittie 11 Aug 2025

LOVE! My fave:
(Jumbled multi-tasking, Jeopardy-struggling)
Soooo many fun sounds in here! I love the letter J! Thanks for the smile this morning!
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Whimsyjismo (new spelling for one night(UK) only) I am delighted to jollify your jaw-stretching yawns. Great prompt! Joy to you x
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Love how much you jabber hinged on the letter j… wonderful
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Oh yes, I do like to hinge on a good j-word… your own native language has a few of those doesn’t it?
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indeed, but we do not pronounce them the same… we pronounce it like Yale…. which shall not be confused with jail
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That makes joyful sense to me, the city of York once known as Viking Jorvic!
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So many wonderful jaunty ‘J’s’ 🙌
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I think I’m right there are no J’s in Welsh? I was born in Chester and my dad took o-level Welsh at Wrecsam Tech (Wrexham in the 1960s)
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Hi, technically yes no ‘j’ – it’s not officially part of the Welsh alphabet, but has been adopted in recent years appearing in many borrowed words such as “garej” so there is some controversy as to whether Welsh as 28 or 29 letters! PS: Wrexham Tech is now a Uni – I attended it a few years ago😊
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😊 thanks for the response – don’t you just love garej!
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Yes what about popty ping – microwave 🤣
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🤣
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A fun quadrille, Kathy! I love the ‘Jasmine-flavoured J for Juggling’.
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Thank you Kim, i do like a good jug of jasmine x
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Kathy, your jasmine-flavoured romper-roomed poem lightened my mood. Wonderful!
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delighted to oblige, Li dear x
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❤ xo
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Such fun wordplay, thanks for making my day!
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Fun!
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Cute!
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nice one
much♡love
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love to you too Gillena
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I love all the J-ing – very clever!
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J can be such a jollicky letter…
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Real fun and clever play with words!
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Glad this made you smile, Ain!
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Kathy, this feels so lively and fun — all those J’s bouncing around made me smile right through to the last “J for Jabber.”
~David
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and your comment smiles back at me, and relaxes my worries away today! Thank you David
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This was jabberishish!
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