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stan
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| Waitress wrote: | | stan wrote: | | ChantillyCat wrote: |
Re #2, ask Waitress. Finding answers like that is one of his strengths. |
clever. very clever |
My strengthlessnesses (“one†vowel) know no limit. |
You are able find minutiae in a veritable Augean stable of library stacks. Able to leap tall buildings of pixels in a single bound.
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DC69Wildcat
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What one-syllable word has the most vowels? I would proffer league.
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catnhat
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| Bill Mlkvy played for Temple years ago. He was called "The Owl without a Vowel". |
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Dr. Bliss
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| stan wrote: | BTW -- non-math question. I'm curious if there are any other two syllable words with a single vowel?
Also what word has the most letters with a single vowel?
Joe Btfsplk is unavailable for comment. |
Lots, if you are in the South.
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stevelee
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On an alumni river cruise in Holland, I noticed that they use the word “hof†in some compound. Our host was a German prof, and I asked about the basic meaning of Hof in German. I knew compounds like Bahnhof and Hofbrauhaus and such that gave me no more clue than did the Dutch word.
I admit I was asking rather casually and didn’t bother with trying my best German on one word in an English sentence. He chided me for the diphthong in my pronunciation and talked of the struggle he has with that from his students. I said, “I’m from Shelby, NC. I did well to get it down to two.â€
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