Danger! Fans are quick to drop questionable hints. However, on the October 31 episode, grammar critics focused on something specific: a possible misuse of alliteration with the phrase “Happy Hour.”

The contestants returned champions. jose carlsteina graduate student from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Greg Jolin, a systems specialist and accountant from Raymond, New Hampshire, and Alicia Buffa, a translator from Montreal, Quebec.

Endangered! round, Jolin (who would happen to win your first game with $24,001), selected the $200 track in the “A Matter of Time” category.

It said: “The Navy popularized this alliterative term for scheduled entertainment time; It is popularized in bars around the world.” He replied, “Happy hour.” Ken Jennings He considered it correct, since this was the desired response.

But many fans on Reddit and elsewhere weren’t so convinced. While some shared that they enjoyed learning that the term originated in the Navy, quite a few argued that “Happy Hour” does not meet the definition of alliteration. While both words They start with the same letter, they don’t start with the same sound.

“Since when is the word “happy hour” an alliteration?” wrote one fan.

Recent nine-day champion Isaac Hirsch responded, “Happy and hour both start with H, so it’s alliterative.”

However, other users turned grammar police also sounded the alarm, with a third responding: “Alliteration is supposed to refer to sound. ‘Photogenic frog’ is an alliterative. “Happy hour is not.”

“The ‘litera’ in ‘alliteration’ is the Latin word for ‘letter,’” a fourth argued.

“The different online dictionaries do not agree,” wrote a fifth, citing the following dictionary definitions:

Merriam Webster: defines alliteration as “the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (like wild and woolly and menacing crowds)”

But dictionary.com has two definitions: “the beginning of two or more stressed syllables of a group of words” or “the beginning of two or more words of a group of words with the same letter.”

According to the Oxford English Dictionary“Alliteration” actually comes from Latin and means “to the letter.”

But as one else pointed out, there is still ambiguity there, as they wrote: “In Latin, there was very little differentiation between letter and sound. Things were written as they were pronounced and things were pronounced as they were written. The same goes for Italian. The definition is quite outdated when speaking in English.”

This isn’t the first time a clue has been called into question during season 41, which premiered on September 9. Of course, there was the “girls who wear glasses” controversy earlier this week, as well as multiple Final Jeopardy fans triple-stumpers felt they were “awful” and the acceptance of that Final Jeopardy “unreadable” answer.

What do you think it was? Danger! Are you wrong to call “Happy Hour” an alliteration? Let us know in the comments section!