#27923
05/01/2001 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"
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#27924
05/01/2001 6:39 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.
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#27925
05/01/2001 8:02 PM
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Hymn
and words containing that word, such as
hymnal
hymnbook
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#27926
05/02/2001 12:20 AM
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#27927
05/02/2001 8:51 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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#27928
05/02/2001 10:55 AM
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#27929
05/02/2001 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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#27930
05/03/2001 10:34 AM
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#27931
05/03/2001 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.
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#27932
05/03/2001 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.htmlPly Peterson
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#27933
05/03/2001 1:07 PM
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From BY's site:
"There are 7 Y's in GLYCYLGLYCYLGLYCYLGLYCINE, which is in DOC, and a legitimate use of which has been found on the Internet."
If I heard someone say that, I think I'd be tempted to tell them they really ought to do something about that stutter.
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#27934
05/03/2001 1:34 PM
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A legitimate chemical website goes one better: http://www.rcdc.nd.edu/compilations/Eaq/EAQ1263.HTMThis is a description of reaction rates in glycylglycylglycylglycylglycine. The structure of the amino acid glycine means this can be compounded in arbitrarily long chains. It's CH2(NH2)COOH, and the chaining lops off either an H from NH2 or an OH from the COOH, giving CH2(NH-)COOH at one end, CH2(NH2)CO+ at the other, and as many CH2(NH-)CO+ as you please between them.
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#27935
05/03/2001 5:37 PM
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Great try, but the glycine has an I and an E. These words can only have "Y" as only vowel.
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#27936
05/03/2001 5:59 PM
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Thanks for the link. Lots of great "y" words
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#27937
05/04/2001 11:31 AM
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> glycine has an I and an E
Ionize the molecule and you have a glycyl...glycyl ion, to whatever desired length.
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#27938
05/04/2001 12:04 PM
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and, as several afterthoughts:
ply, try, shy, sly, spy, sty
(that's enough for tonight!)
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#27939
05/05/2001 7:46 PM
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spry, glyph, gyppy, gyp, gymp, sylph, lynch
Sara.
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