#27310
04/25/2001 7:33 PM
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What words have 3 vowels in a row?
Thanks!
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#27311
04/25/2001 7:36 PM
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A new favorite, courtesy of tswum:
aeolist
I actually considered changing my handle to this, but didn't want to start again as a stranger.
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#27312
04/25/2001 7:47 PM
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beautiful question-- i am sure we'll find lots of answers!
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#27313
04/25/2001 7:56 PM
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are you serious? (how many words do you suppose there are in the -ious family? :-) here's one with a double string of 3: eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious 
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#27314
04/25/2001 8:12 PM
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queer -- I never thought about how common it is -- (should have know it was an easy task-- I thought of two right away!)
shall we play with it for a while-- and then go on to 4 vowels in a row? ---like the beheaded words--are there any 4 vowels in row? (i think so...) or Double u's-- and see what we can come up with? -- or maybe bonus points for words that have double sets of 3 vowes in a row-- only the points don't mean anything-- they are just there for fun!
I'm going to presume its english-- but just what are you doing to/with/like an eel?
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#27315
04/25/2001 8:21 PM
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A personal favorite: archaeology
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04/25/2001 8:27 PM
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it's a word of some dubiousness which has nothing whatsoever to do with eels, but rather means "good, perhaps very good".
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#27317
04/25/2001 10:09 PM
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Thank You! If there are any with four or five vowels please let me know and please keep them coming. I have these so far:
aeolian
sequoia
nefarious
onomatopoeia
canoeing
Hawaii
alleluia
allioceous
ambitious
aeolist
beautiful
queer
archaeology
dubiousness
THANKS!
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#27318
04/25/2001 10:20 PM
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Is eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious a real word?
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#27319
04/26/2001 10:56 AM
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meiosis
pious
siliceous
salacious
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#27320
04/26/2001 1:12 PM
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as no one has risen to the challenge yet (and I do have a reputation to maintain ;), here are some useless words which have *more than* three... epigaeous - growing on, or close to, the ground maieutic - relating to or resembling the Socratic method of eliciting new ideas from another eugeuia - allspice and clove producing plants plateauing  oh, and I just noticed that you have onomatopoeia on your list, and in that vein: mythopoeia pharmacopoeia prosopopoeia and now, just to start a fight, I present you with blueeyed (5?) yo-yo (all 4?)
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#27321
04/26/2001 10:48 PM
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tsu"noblesse oblige"wm presents us with: yo-yo (all 4?)
Sure, if you umlaut the ÿs.[hi F!]
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#27322
04/26/2001 10:53 PM
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Blueeyed?!!!! Well, you probably could get away with it in the course of everyday writing, but if you wrote "blueeyed" for MY consumption, I'd whip out the old red pen and dutifully stick a hyphen between "blue" and "eyed," turning your "blueeyed," which is visually torturous, into the ocularly pleasing "blue-eyed." Of course, I've always been told I'm too Argus-eyed for my own good, so you would have to take my editorial criticism with a proverbial grain of salt.
John
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#27323
04/26/2001 11:17 PM
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Of course, I've always been told I'm too Argus-eyed for my own good, so you would have to take my editorial criticism with a proverbial grain of salt.Oh yeah? And what do your cow-orkers think? 
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#27324
05/01/2001 7:54 PM
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Do we accept proper nouns ("Louie")?
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#27325
05/01/2001 10:56 PM
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I don't have any really long ones but I offer this in lieu.
-Jim
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#27326
05/02/2001 3:13 PM
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We're not within cooee of the end yet, but they're queuing up.
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05/03/2001 5:02 PM
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Miaotse for our friend in China Hi Youtian/
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#27328
05/04/2001 7:15 PM
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Anyone know words with double vowels besides o and e (besides vacuum and aardvark)?
Are there any triple vowels in English?
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#27329
05/04/2001 8:29 PM
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there are lots of aa's and ii's, but they're mostly uninteresting. (e.g., -iism and -iite forms) I think the only triples you'll find are hyphenated (like see-er and no-see-em).
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#27330
05/07/2001 10:52 AM
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see-er and no-see-em
I would spell them "seer" and "no-see-um". I've never seen the triple-e spellings for either one.
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05/07/2001 1:42 PM
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...are variants which turn up in really big dictionaries.
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#27332
05/07/2001 5:33 PM
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Of course, tsuwm, I didn't doubt the authenticity of your spellings. I just thought they looked awfully weird.
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#27333
05/08/2001 1:13 AM
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No kidding? I didn't know there were any ii words!
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#27334
05/08/2001 9:14 AM
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aa: a kind of lava; Hawaiian
laager, kraal, aasvogel: Afrikaans
radii, etc.
torii: a Japanese temple gate (?)
continuum, duumvirate
We can ignore the somewhat artificial classical words like euoi and Aiaiai. They hardly count as English.
In English see + er becomes seer, but in Dutch the comparable compounds do keep three eee's.
There's a town in Tahiti called Faaa.
In Finnish, y is a vowel pure and simple: and by combining haa 'wedding', yö 'night', and aie 'intention' you can make haayöaie. (I'm doing that from memory, and the first word might be wrong, but if so it's something equally applicable like hää.)
Shifting to consonants, in German Ballett + tanzer formerly gave Ballettanzer; the new system I believe renders this more logically as Balletttanzer. In English we're deprived of this sight by the hyphens in gill-less and Inverness-shire.
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#27335
05/13/2001 1:41 AM
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So English doesn't have any unhyphenated, triple-vowel words? By the way - I just found a quadruple-o word (albeit hyphenated) at the end of the "Altar Poems" thread.
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