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OP Sorry, just getting back to this (apparently the "email me with follow-ups" checkbox didn't send me any of your replies). It was a simple regular-expression run against a local dictionary on my computer:
grep '^[aeiouy]\?\([bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz][aeiouy]\)*[bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz]\?$' /usr/share/dict/words | grep ...............
which roughly translates to "allowing one optional vowel at the beginning of the word, find any number of consonant-followed-by-vowel pairs, optionally followed by one consonant at the end; search the local dictionary file for anything that matches the pattern; take the results and filter them for matches containing at least 15 characters in them". There's something to be said for geekery.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Alternating vowel/cons. longer than verisimilitude Gumnos 11/14/11 07:05 PM Re: Alternating vowel/cons. longer than verisimilitude tsuwm 11/14/11 11:08 PM Re: Alternating vowel/cons. longer than verisimilitude Candy 11/15/11 10:52 AM Re: Alternating vowel/cons. longer than verisimilitude Gumnos 11/21/11 12:59 AM
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