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wu :: forums    riddles    easy (Moderators: towr, Eigenray, ThudnBlunder, SMQ, Icarus, william wu, Grimbal)    aeiou « Previous topic | Next topic » Pages: 1  Reply Notify of replies Send Topic Print    Author  Topic: aeiou  (Read 757 times) jabhiji Newbie     Gender: Posts: 24 aeiou   « on: Jan 30th, 2003, 12:41pm » Quote Modify What words in english have 4 vowels in a row ? IP Logged towr wu::riddles Moderator Uberpuzzler Some people are average, some are just mean.     Gender: Posts: 13730 Re: aeiou   « Reply #1 on: Jan 30th, 2003, 1:46pm » Quote Modify f.i. queue   or do you mean different vowels? IP Logged Wikipedia, Google, Mathworld, Integer sequence DB jabhiji Newbie     Gender: Posts: 24 Re: aeiou   « Reply #2 on: Jan 30th, 2003, 2:30pm » Quote Modify Repeated vowels are OK. I just know one other. IP Logged Chris Newbie     Gender: Posts: 4 Re: aeiou   « Reply #3 on: Jan 30th, 2003, 3:57pm » Quote Modify The only other one I know is aqeous. Along the same lines, what is the longest word that uses ONLY vowels? IP Logged Chris Newbie     Gender: Posts: 4 Re: aeiou   « Reply #4 on: Jan 30th, 2003, 3:58pm » Quote Modify Sorry aqueous if I could spell correctly. I've never been accused of being a good speller... IP Logged jakevil Newbie     Gender: Posts: 2 Re: aeiou   « Reply #5 on: Jan 30th, 2003, 4:04pm » Quote Modify greetings   Other than cheating by using "queuing" (I'm not sure if that would count, since someone said "queue" already), I can think of a couple...   obsequious     onomatopoeia   I ran across a webpage once... I'll see if I can find it on google..  It had a whole bunch of "weird vowel words" listed.  I'll dig around, and post the link if I can find it. IP Logged Phil Newbie     Posts: 38 Re: aeiou   « Reply #6 on: Jan 30th, 2003, 7:18pm » Quote Modify How about sequoia? And the alternate spelling of palaeoanthropology.   For what it's worth, some dictionaries accept the spelling queueing with 5 vowels in a row and the word cooeeing, which is the act of screaming like an Australian.   And a post-postscript: here's a word oddity webpage with these and many other vowel combinations: http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words6.html « Last Edit: Jan 30th, 2003, 7:36pm by Phil » IP Logged Pages: 1  Reply Notify of replies Send Topic Print Forum Jump: ----------------------------- riddles -----------------------------=> easy   - medium   - hard   - what am i   - what happened   - microsoft   - cs   - putnam exam (pure math)   - suggestions, help, and FAQ   - general problem-solving / chatting / whatever ----------------------------- general -----------------------------  - guestbook   - truth   - complex analysis   - wanted   - psychology   - chinese « Previous topic | Next topic »

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