Danger! fans are quick to point out questionable clues. However, during the Oct. 31 episode, grammar enthusiasts focused on one particular thing: a possible misuse of alliteration in the phrase “Happy Hour.”

Contestants were returning as champions Joseph CarlsteinGreg Jolin, a graduate student from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a systems specialist and accountant from Raymond, New Hampshire, and Alicia Buffa, a translator from Montreal, Quebec.

In danger! round, Jolin (who would go on) won his first match with $24,001) chose the $200 clue in the “A Question of Time” category.

It read: “The Navy popularized this alliterative term for planned recreational time; seen in bars all over the world. “Happy Hour,” he replied. Ken Jennings Since this was the desired response, he decided it was correct.

But many fans on Reddit and elsewhere aren’t so convinced. While some said they were amused to learn that the term originated in the Navy, many argued that “Happy Hour” did not fit the definition of alliteration. Both words They start with the same letter, not the same sound.

“Since when did ‘happy hour’ become alliterative?” wrote one fan.

Last nine day champion Isaac Hirsch replied: “Happy and hour both start with H, so they are alliterative.”

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

“The ‘litera’ in ‘Alliteration’ is the Latin word for ‘letter,'” said the fourth.

“Different online dictionaries disagree,” wrote a fifth, citing the following dictionary definitions:

Merriam Webster: defines alliteration as “the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more adjacent words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening crowds).”

However dictionary.com It has two definitions: “The beginning of two or more stressed syllables in a word group” or “The beginning of two or more words in a word group with the same letter”.

according to Oxford English Dictionary“Alliteration” really comes from Latin and means “according to the letter.”

But as another person noted, there is still ambiguity here, as they wrote: “In Latin there was little distinction between letter and sound. Things were written the way they were pronounced and pronounced the way they were written. The same goes for Italian. “The definition is pretty outdated when we talk about English.”

This isn’t the first time a lead has been called into question during Season 41, which premiered Sept. 9. “girls wearing glasses” The controversy from earlier this week and how more than one Final Jeopardy triple bum fan is feeling “terrible” and acceptance HE “unreadable” is the Ultimate Jeopardy answer.

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