"I'd like to buy a vowel." Most of us in the `civilized' world are familiar
with this oft-heard sentence in a popular TV game show. For those who are
not, it is a Hangman-like game where contestants identify words in several
categories by guessing their letters. Correctly guessing a consonant helps
in winning a prize, while one has to pay to guess a vowel. Imagine playing
this game and getting words having all five vowels? That wouldn't be very
exciting where you have to squander all your cash in buying the vowels. To
make it more tolerable, we've selected this week words that have all the
vowels once, but only once. And the vowels can be in any order. To see
the words with all the vowels, once and only once, AND in order, see the
archives for Oct 1997: http://wordsmith.org/awad/themes.html.