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Ricky

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Name this pattern

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1

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JohnnyReinB

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Re: Name this pattern

1's disturbed by one 3

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Ricky

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Re: Name this pattern

There is a rule which can be described in plain english.

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mikau

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Re: Name this pattern

the number of syllables in each letter of the alphabet?

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Ricky

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Re: Name this pattern

Yep.  I noticed this when I was trying to sing the alphabet backwards.  It doesn't work right because of the syllables in w.

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mikau

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Re: Name this pattern

not unless you sing out w one syllable at a time like it was 3 separate letters, and then blaze through 'f e d' at the end.

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