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#27923 05/01/01 11:55 AM
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I am trying to create a list of words that only contain the letter "y" as the words only vowel. More than one "y" is even better. does anyone know of a web dictionary or other source of info where I could find or search for these words? My best find so far is "syzygy"


#27924 05/01/01 06:39 PM
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Well i am sure you already have these on your list..
Rhythm
Styx

but maybe my post will generate more interest-- since i am sure other can come up with longer, and less common words.


#27925 05/01/01 08:02 PM
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Hymn
and words containing that word, such as
hymnal
hymnbook



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pyx


#27927 05/02/01 08:51 AM
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I can't top syzygy. I guess you have these too:

lynx
jynx

yours,
the onyxmonger


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Thy Hi F!


#27929 05/02/01 12:28 PM
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I would have posted earlier on this thread, but I was too diffident

and, in addition, I didn't see it with my little eye until just now

how about lyre, or would you prefer the truth?

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by
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why


#27931 05/03/01 11:19 AM
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George Borrow, while researching Romany Rye and Wild Wales, heard tales of travellers' children who sneaked in and enchanted the pigs in the valleys by singing sacred songs, and rose up into the air with them.

This might be the origin of the expression "pigs might fly".

Or it could just be my cwm hymn fly-by-sty shy pygmy gypsy myth.


#27932 05/03/01 11:40 AM
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LKB - you'll find something similar at the site below. It's known to regulars here and has lots of fun words to astound folks at dinner parties.

http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words10.html


Ply Peterson


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