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(Message started by: jabhiji on Jan 30^th, 2003, 12:41pm)

Title: aeiou
Post by jabhiji on Jan 30^th, 2003, 12:41pm

What words in english have 4 vowels in a row ?

Title: Re: aeiou
Post by towr on Jan 30^th, 2003, 1:46pm

f.i. queue

or do you mean different vowels?

Title: Re: aeiou
Post by jabhiji on Jan 30^th, 2003, 2:30pm

Repeated vowels are OK. I just know one other.

Title: Re: aeiou
Post by Chris on Jan 30^th, 2003, 3:57pm

The only other one I know is aqeous. Along the same lines, what is the longest word that uses ONLY vowels?

Title: Re: aeiou
Post by Chris on Jan 30^th, 2003, 3:58pm

Sorry aqueous if I could spell correctly. I've never been accused of being a good speller...

Title: Re: aeiou
Post by jakevil on Jan 30^th, 2003, 4:04pm

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.

Title: Re: aeiou
Post by Phil on Jan 30^th, 2003, 7:18pm

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