Puzzle Description:

Shag on stone -- a daring new move in modern architexture. (more details in the first comment)

#1: Yonah Kondor (yokon965) on Sep 24, 2025 [SPOILER]

I just watched a YouTube video about the the fast food industry in the US, and the creator/narrator kept pronouncing architecture as architexture. I couldn’t resist turning it into a Lazy Tongue puzzle. Here’s the video if you want to hear it for yourself: https://youtu.be/nbUycoMYaDY?t=100

ew, no thanks!

< cringe >

What a weird thing to say! It seems like it takes more effort to pronounce it with the "x"!

As an architect, I'm too scared to click the link :(

Not so much now with TV as a guide, but when I was growing up we pronounced things as we heard them. My mother was born in St. Louis in 1900 and spoke German before she spoke English and even though she forgot the German language she still spoke with a hint of German. She would often serve us sandviches for lunch. My ex called the toilet a terlit. I developed strange pronuciations for people's names that I read not having heard them pronounced by anyone. My Penelope rhymed with antelope.

I hope you realize, Norma, that the first time I run across someone introducing themselves as Penelope, your story is going to run through my mind and I will have to explain why I broke out into laughter.

My boss and I were discussing bourbon the other day and he pronounced the Penelope brand that way.

My wife mispronounces a variety of words. Many of them she knows she says slightly differently but some of them are just from only ever having read the word. Hard to fault somebody for learning a portion of their vocabulary from reading books :P

Being that english is not my first language, I am sure I mispronounce many words, but this one is not one of them!

Still waiting on your profile bio jota :P

Wait no longer!

Today I learned to stop hearing "Jota" and start hearing "Hota" in my head when I read the name!

Cool Yonah!

Yonah hasn't been reading all the comments. :)
Over the years, people have done "J is for Jota" puzzles, and each time she explains that it's the Spanish pronunciation.

Of course, I also learned the Spanish alphabet (and some common words) in school, because I lived in Texas until I was 9. I still remember "jota, ka, ele, ellye..."

LOL. Knowing myself, I'd be willing to bet that there's an old puzzle somewhere wherein Jota clearly explained this, and I subsequently indicated clear understanding. I think I forget things just for the excitement of learning them all over again. :D

In case anybody else needs a hint:

Line logic took me to 5%. Then the only green in the last column is in row 2, which places the green 6 in row 2.

Now since all the green in columns 15-20 is in that green 6, looking at row 3, going from left to right looking for where to place it, the only place it can go is in columns 12-14.

Line logic.

Now looking at the green 1 in column 11. From bottom to top, the only place it can fit is row 4.

Line logic.

Now looking at column 9 from bottom to top, the only place the green 1 can go is row 5.

Line logic from there to finish.

Woo!! Jota bio!

;-)

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