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== Live Action TV ==
* On one [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-january-25-2007/alphabet toss] between ''[[The Daily Show]]'' and ''[[The Colbert Report]]'', Jon Stewart made fun of [[Stephen Colbert]] for playing the letter "Z" on ''[[Sesame Street]]: All-Star Alphabet'', leading to this exchange:
{{quote|'''Stephen:''' Yeah, you know what "z" stands for, Jon: ''[[Revenge|zrevenge]]''!
'''Jon:''' See you in a minute, Stephen!
'''Stephen:''' ''I will have my zvengeance!'' }}
* During a game of "90 Second Alphabet" on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'': Greg Proops was made to start his line with the letter X, and spat out, "X-actly no!" even holding up his arms in the shape of an X for emphasis.
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== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Penny Arcade]]'', in [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/6/11/ this comic] about ''[[Kirby]]''.
{{quote|'''General:''' We call it the [[Fun with Acronyms|Kinetic Ingestion Regulator Bio-Yorganism]].
'''Meta Knight''': Yorganism?
'''General:''' Y is kind of a tricky letter. }}
== Web Original ==
* This is how ''[[Fobbies Are Borange]]'' got its name. A Starmen.net forum member suggested a mnemonic to tell apart two [[Palette Swap]]ped enemies in ''[[
* From [[Peachi]]'s ''[[Persona 4]]'' [http://hiimdaisy.livejournal.com/27081.html comic]:
{{quote|'''Shadow Teddie:''' The word of the day is: FUTILE! As in: "Your futile existence has no meaning." Chie, do you know any other words that start with F?
'''Chie:''' [[Trademark Favorite Food|Fsteak]].
'''Shadow Teddie:''' Excellent. }}
* [[TV Tropes]]: [[Pstandard Psychic Pstance]] is named according to this trope, as is [[Psmith Psyndrome]], in a different way.
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* Almost all software written for [[UNIX|KDE]] has the name with "K", preferably as the first letter. If there's no synonym, "K" may replace "c" or "q". Failing that, it's shoehorned. Killbots, Karbon, Konqueror, KoolDock, Okular, Klear, KBattleship...
* A joke: [[Zorro]] saves a [[Dumb Blonde]] from an unspecified danger. Then he asks: "Do you know who saved you?" She answers in the negative. He points at the Z: "That's the first letter of my name!" She says: "Ohhh, now I get it! Thank you, [[Superman|Zuperman]]!"
* Sometimes seen in posters, books, etc. of the alphabet where each letter is accompanied by a word that starts with that letter. If "x" isn't represented by "xylophone" or "X-ray", it'll be "ox" or "axe".
* The "three Rs" of Education: Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic. Only one actually starts with an R when spelled properly. At least writing kinda has the excuse of sounding like it does, but arithmetic has no such excuse.
** In a similar vein: [[4X]]. Should be Four ''E'', but [[X Makes Anything Cool]].
* Something very common with crosswords is that people will change the letters in a word in order to make it fit.
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