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| grizzly
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| 109841. Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:30 am |
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| Shame it isn't on the cambers site, that would have made a great word for changelings. |
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| WordLover
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| 112042. Sat Nov 04, 2006 4:09 am |
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| qibookwrangler wrote: | | Shortest word in the english language with all five vowels (or vowel graphemes) |
Iouea. It's on this page
http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/taxonomy/taxWord.html
which gives many examples of biological taxon names (genera, species etc.) which are interesting in a variety of ways relating to word play. Iouea is (naturally) in the section"Vowels". |
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| 112275. Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:33 pm |
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| What is the shortest word with all vowels that also contains the 'and sometime 'y''? |
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| costean
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| 112341. Sat Nov 04, 2006 6:22 pm |
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I'll open the bidding at ten letters - buoyancies
All in the correct order, eleven - facetiously |
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| 112470. Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:51 am |
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| Wordlover, I graciously cede to your superior taxonomic/lexographic knowledge... |
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| 544358. Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:34 pm |
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There is a poetry book called Eunoia by the Canadian poet Christian Bök.
It is a "Univocalic" work, which means that sections of it only use one vowel. There are five main chapters in it. In the first chapter, the only words that can be used are ones with the letter "A" and no other vowels. In the second chapter, it is "E", the third "I", the fourth "O" and the fifth "U". Chapter E consists of a retelling of the story of Helen of Troy and The Iliad.
Online version of the book |
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| Susannah Dingley
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| 562967. Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:26 am |
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| costean wrote: | I'll open the bidding at ten letters - buoyancies
All in the correct order, eleven - facetiously |
Also for 10:
audiometry
coequality
eukaryotic
Also for 11 in order:
abstemiously
abstentiously
There’s also caesious, meaning “containing caesium” – so … would you accept caesiously?  |
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| Moosh
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| 562974. Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:44 am |
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| Susannah Dingley wrote: | | There’s also caesious, meaning “containing caesium” – so … would you accept caesiously? |
In the manner of containing caesium? I'd accept that as a word. And caesiously only has ten letters. |
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| Susannah Dingley
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| 563095. Wed Jun 03, 2009 11:00 am |
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As far as I can tell, no one has ever used caesiously except in the context of the question currently being discussed. If anyone can use it in a sentence otherwise, I'll be fairly impressed.
Aerious (like air) is in the OED, and is a letter shorther then caesious. Accordingly, aeriously could potentially exist, but it doesn't seem to. |
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| Moosh
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| 563125. Wed Jun 03, 2009 11:37 am |
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| suze wrote: | | As far as I can tell, no one has ever used caesiously except in the context of the question currently being discussed. If anyone can use it in a sentence otherwise, I'll be fairly impressed. |
"The <name of a chemical> reacted caesiously." By which I'd mean that it reacted like it contained caesium. I'm sure someone who's better at chemistry than me could supply something that would fit. |
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