Three vowels together
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I was originally going to go with "queueing", but spell check revealed that it is correctly spelled "queuing" :sigh: But the most interesting English word that I've come across is cwm[^], which doesn't have ANY vowels (not even the "sometimes Y"). Granted that it was originally Welsh, but that's about as close to a native English word as you could get.
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Nice. How about: Abstemious and facetious ( both of these words have their vowels in alphabetical order )...
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I just wrote an email with the word "unforeseeable", and was struck by the "eea". That's all folks. :) Marc
How about a word with two consecutive V's? Only someone really savvy with linguistics would know.
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Nice. How about: Abstemious and facetious ( both of these words have their vowels in alphabetical order )...
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
And both have a certain rhythm to them.
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How about a word with two consecutive V's? Only someone really savvy with linguistics would know.
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Most of this sig is for Google, not ego.Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
How about a word with two consecutive V's?
nope, can't do it. but, finding long words with only one vowel is one of my strengths.
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How about a word with two consecutive V's? Only someone really savvy with linguistics would know.
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Most of this sig is for Google, not ego.How about a word with 6 consecutive vowels which also has zero consonants.... Euouae wiktionary.org
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I just wrote an email with the word "unforeseeable", and was struck by the "eea". That's all folks. :) Marc
You had to be discussing schedule, weren't you?
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And both have a certain rhythm to them.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
How about the Old English word hareiously* if you want to include 'y' as a vowel? * def.: In a cruel or merciless manner; Actions performed without mercy. From the Old English circa 15th century, hareiously has lost its function in the modern English language.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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I was originally going to go with "queueing", but spell check revealed that it is correctly spelled "queuing" :sigh: But the most interesting English word that I've come across is cwm[^], which doesn't have ANY vowels (not even the "sometimes Y"). Granted that it was originally Welsh, but that's about as close to a native English word as you could get.
I don't claim to be a know it all, for I know that I am not...
I usually have an answer though.
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And both have a certain rhythm to them.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
Speaking of which, "rhythm" has no vowels. :) /ravi
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I just wrote an email with the word "unforeseeable", and was struck by the "eea". That's all folks. :) Marc
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Speaking of which, "rhythm" has no vowels. :) /ravi
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Do you ever feel like a dinosaur? If so, and you're a bit elastic, you could always be archaeoaeolotropic.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
Please tell me that you looked that word up because otherwise I'll KNOW that you were an English Literature major at your university, probably a Professor in disguise... Not that there's anything wrong with that really, being a Jedi Master requires a certain level of eloquence
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How about a word with 6 consecutive vowels which also has zero consonants.... Euouae wiktionary.org
"The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?" -- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison
That sounds suspiciously like a non-kid sister friendly utterance...
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The longest word you can type on a standard keyboard with your left hand (using American taught typing techniques) is stewardesses.
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And the longest word you can type using just the top row of keys on a typewriter is... you guessed it -
TYPEWRITER. :) /raviMy new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
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Scott Barbour wrote:
but spell check revealed that it is correctly spelled "queuing"
I noticed that too but it looks like it may be OK both ways. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Queueing[^]
It would seem that a campaign is needed to determine an official spelling. Some dictionaries have both. Others have one or the other. From that link however, these are the sponsored ads at the top:
Qtrac Queuing System
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Queuing Solutions
High tech and low tech queuing systems and makers.
MARKSTAAR.com
Customer Queuing System
Affordable customer queuing system with Take-A-Number ticket dispenser
www.microframecorp.comI don't claim to be a know it all, for I know that I am not...
I usually have an answer though.
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And the longest word you can type using just the top row of keys on a typewriter is... you guessed it -
TYPEWRITER. :) /raviMy new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
Nah if you have a 64bit system, then you've got the word: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE :laugh:
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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Nah if you have a 64bit system, then you've got the word: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE :laugh:
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
:) /ravi
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Please tell me that you looked that word up because otherwise I'll KNOW that you were an English Literature major at your university, probably a Professor in disguise... Not that there's anything wrong with that really, being a Jedi Master requires a certain level of eloquence
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I wish I had looked it up. There's no end of trivia swirling around in my mind.
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