J wrote:Hymns
Plurals not allowed lad
Sorry - that's the rules
No Vowels!
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Re: No Vowels!
Plurals not allowed lad
Sorry - that's the rules
mudshark wrote:Comparing Peruvian white asparagus to the Dutch variety is like comparing Harold Budd to Terry Riley.
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Re: No Vowels!
Santa C wrote:J wrote:Hymns
Plurals not allowed lad
Sorry - that's the rules
Oh Really? So plurals are not allowed?
You've not mentioned that before!!
Santa C wrote:There are only1314 five letter words in the English language with no vowels
Can you name them?
one at a time and PLEASE no cheating!
ooooof!
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You've previously chastised people for "not reading the question".
Did you read it?
oh the sun is shining
and I'm on that road
and I'm on that road
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Santa C wrote:Six String wrote:These words are using Y as a vowel so how are these five letter words without vowels? Am I missing something here?
Hmmmm.
Y is theoretically a consonant but is considered a semivowel or glide
Grrrr!
Well of course. My point was since they are using Y as a vowel it doesn’t count.
Everything is broken
B. Dylan
B. Dylan
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Re: No Vowels!
J wrote:Santa C wrote:J wrote:Hymns
Plurals not allowed lad
Sorry - that's the rules
Oh Really? So plurals are not allowed?
You've not mentioned that before!!Santa C wrote:There are only1314 five letter words in the English language with no vowels
Can you name them?
one at a time and PLEASE no cheating!
ooooof!
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You've previously chastised people for "not reading the question".
Did you read it?
New rule
mudshark wrote:Comparing Peruvian white asparagus to the Dutch variety is like comparing Harold Budd to Terry Riley.
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Re: No Vowels!
Santa C wrote:J wrote:Santa C wrote:
Plurals not allowed lad
Sorry - that's the rules
Oh Really? So plurals are not allowed?
You've not mentioned that before!!Santa C wrote:There are only1314 five letter words in the English language with no vowels
Can you name them?
one at a time and PLEASE no cheating!
ooooof!
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You've previously chastised people for "not reading the question".
Did you read it?
New rule
A rule change on page 3...?!?
... you're just trying to PSYCH out the rest of us!
oh the sun is shining
and I'm on that road
and I'm on that road
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J wrote:... you're just trying to PSYCH out the rest of us!
Grrrr!
mudshark wrote:Comparing Peruvian white asparagus to the Dutch variety is like comparing Harold Budd to Terry Riley.
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Re: No Vowels!
I got RHYTHM.
Which of course is six letters, so according to the strict rules of the competition, means I win…?
Frankly, Y is used as a full vowel in most if not all of the examples mentioned. In Swedish we count it as a vowel, although it denotes a different sound, similar but not identical to German’s ”ü”. And it never takes a consonant sound, e.g. ”yellow” - we use ”j” for that.
We also have three further vowels, å, ä and ö, so nine in total.
Here’s a cute one: are two words in English where the five vowels appear in alphabetical order, once and once only - which?
Which of course is six letters, so according to the strict rules of the competition, means I win…?
Frankly, Y is used as a full vowel in most if not all of the examples mentioned. In Swedish we count it as a vowel, although it denotes a different sound, similar but not identical to German’s ”ü”. And it never takes a consonant sound, e.g. ”yellow” - we use ”j” for that.
We also have three further vowels, å, ä and ö, so nine in total.
Here’s a cute one: are two words in English where the five vowels appear in alphabetical order, once and once only - which?
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Jag förstod inte att du var svensk!
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mudshark wrote:Comparing Peruvian white asparagus to the Dutch variety is like comparing Harold Budd to Terry Riley.
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Re: No Vowels!
northernsky wrote:
Here’s a cute one: are two words in English where the five vowels appear in alphabetical order, once and once only - which?
Aeriportu
Am I close?
Bugger off.
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Re: No Vowels!
Not really… more common (and more English) than that!
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Re: No Vowels!
northernsky wrote:
Here’s a cute one: are two words in English where the five vowels appear in alphabetical order, once and once only - which?
I think "facetious" is one of them.
Can't think of the other one though.
Oh hang on, isn't "facetiously" a word?
Any chance that's the second one????
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J wrote:northernsky wrote:
Here’s a cute one: are two words in English where the five vowels appear in alphabetical order, once and once only - which?
I think "facetious" is one of them.
Can't think of the other one though.
Yes!
The other one begins, in fact, with ”a”.
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Abstemious!
As Duran Duran nearly sang
As Duran Duran nearly sang
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.