Lost Consonants

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Lost Consonants is a comic collage series by Graham Rawle. It ran in The Guardian in the UK from 1990 to 2005. Each piece shows a sentence with one letter removed, creating a funny or odd new meaning. For example, "Youths addicted to drugs" becomes "youths addicted to rugs" when the D is dropped; "thirsty" becomes "thirty" when the S is dropped. The strips were published weekly in the Guardian for 15 years and also appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) for more than a year and in the Globe and Mail (Canada). They have been featured in several English-language magazines, such as Spotlight Verlag and BBC English Magazine. Nearly 800 Lost Consonants strips appeared in The Guardian, and eight books collecting the series have been published.