Puzzle
Norm Strong
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Benoit de la Filolie
Facile
OISEAU
Plus difficile, quel est le mot francais qui possede les 6 voyelles:AEIOUY.
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Mark Rosenfelder
>What is the shortest word you can think of that contains all 5 vowels?
e'vanoui
Erik Robertson
until further notice, there are six vowels in the french language: aeiouy !!!
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Harley Davis
What is the shortest word you can think of that contains all 5 vowels?
In English, the shortest such word with the vowels in order is
FACETIOUS. If you like Y as a vowel, FACETIOUSLY.
J'entends deja les voix qui hurlent, "Quel rapoort avec scf." Bien,
aucun. Tant pis.
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Jacques Guy
Nope, we were taught in primary school that there were five vowels
(shades of when "y" was the mediaeval i-longa). As for that word,
I think it's "bird". Les Autrichiens ont mieux: leur devise
du temps de l'empire austro-hongois: AEIOU.
David Ebbo
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> What is the shortest word you can think of that contains all 5 vowels?
>
>In English, the shortest such word with the vowels in order is
>FACETIOUS. If you like Y as a vowel, FACETIOUSLY.
>
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I think OISEAU is just a short as you can get, although it's not in
alphabetical order.
I can't think of any word that contains those five plus a Y.
If anybody has a computerized French dictionary, it should be quite simple
to write a little program that would find such word if it exists.
David Ebbo --- University of Waterloo
Frederic Maffray
Yougoslavie
rougeoyai
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Benoit de la Filolie
Bravo pour la reponse, mais j'avais une troisieme solution:
Apocalyptique
Stephane Payrard
> I can't think of any word that contains those five plus a Y.
> If anybody has a computerized French dictionary, it should be quite simple
> to write a little program that would find such word if it exists.
It is not absolutely obvious because of the accentuated characters;
you don't want to count an accent mark as a character but it is
usually stored as such in a computer. If you get rid of them
altogether, things are indeed trivial, thanks to perl version 4.0
patch level 18 just released by Larry Wall. The following script
sorts six voyels words in ascending length, and lexicographically for
words of same length.
For the five voyels problem, an adapted script just give the shorter
word instead of a too long list.
With a previous version of perl, you are obliged to defined a sort
routine instead of using a anonymous routine. For people interested
in this language, which runs on Unix and MSDOS and obsoletes at once
tens of UNIX (now in)utilities, there is a newslist called
comp.lang.perl.
The french dictionnary I have used is part of a package called Epelle
written by zimme...@inria.inria.fr.
As a treat, I gave you the output of the same scripts for the English
language.
The french dictionnary does not include "nom propres", but the English
one bundled with SunOS does: (I don't know the English equivalent for
"nom propre")
Faites de beaux reves de yaourtieres prophylactiques, aerodynamiques,
paroxysmiques et paroxystiques (sauf error typographique d'un
hyponcondriaque aux talents dactylographiques limites et au
vocabulaire usuellement monosyllabique). ;-)
stef
zweig% time <dico perl -e 'while(<>){if(m/y/&&m/u/&&m/o/&&m/i/&&m/a/&&m/e/){s/['\''`]//;push(@a,$_);}}print sort{length($a)<=>length($b)||$a cmp $b;}@a'
noyautiez
noyauterai
rougeoyait
rudoyaient
tutoyaient
yaourtiere
coudoyaient
louvoyaient
noyautaient
noyauterais
noyauterait
noyauteriez
paronymique
soudoyaient
sous-payiez
soustrayiez
sursoyaient
vouvoyaient
yaourtieres
asymptotique
foudroyaient
fourvoyaient
hypothequais
hypothequait
noyauterions
paronymiques
paroxysmique
paroxystique
pourvoyaient
rougeoyaient
sous-payerai
surpayerions
tournoyaient
aerodynamique
apocalyptique
asymptotiques
hypothequerai
noyauteraient
paroxysmiques
paroxystiques
sous-payaient
sous-payerais
sous-payerait
sous-payeriez
soustrayaient
symptomatique
typographique
aerodynamiques
apocalyptiques
hydrographique
hypocondriaque
hypothequaient
hypothequerais
hypothequerait
monosyllabique
polysyllabique
prophylactique
sous-payerions
symptomatiques
typographiques
hydrographiques
hypocondriaques
monosyllabiques
polysyllabiques
prophylactiques
psychosomatique
sous-payeraient
thermodynamique
dactylographique
hypothequeraient
psychosomatiques
dactylographiques
antipoliomyelitique
antipoliomyelitiques
7.3u 0.5s 0:10 76% 0+616k 0+6io 1pf+0w
zweig% perl -v
This is perl, version 4.0
$RCSfile: perl.c,v $$Revision: 4.0.1.5 $$Date: 91/11/05 18:03:32 $
Patch level: 18
Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1991, Larry Wall
Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 4.0 source kit.
zweig%
zweig% time</usr/dict/words perl -e 'while(<>){if(m/y/&&m/u/&&m/o/&&m/i/&&m/a/&&m/e/){s/['\''`]//;push(@a,$_);}}print sort{length($a)<=>length($b)||$a cmp $b;}@a'
aureomycin
evolutionary
exclusionary
praseodymium
precautionary
revolutionary
neuropsychiatric
psychotherapeutic
2.2u 0.4s 0:04 60% 0+588k 9+6io 58pf+0w
zweig%
zweig% perl</usr/dict/words -e 'while(<>){if(m/u/&&m/o/&&m/i/&&m/a/&&m/e/){s/['\''`]//;push(@a,$_);}}print ((sort{length($a)<=>length($b)||$a cmp $b;}@a)[0])'
Sequoia
zweig% perl<dico -e 'while(<>){if(m/u/&&m/o/&&m/i/&&m/a/&&m/e/){s/['\''`]//;push(@a,$_);}}print ((sort{length($a)<=>length($b)||$a cmp $b;}@a)[0])'
oiseau
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Philip Yzarn de Louraille
>Si l'on ne compte pas "y" comme une voyelle, pourquoi pas "oiseau"?
Dans la langue francaise, "y" *est* une voyelle! Donc votre proposition est
annullee d'avance.
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Antoine Hraoui
On peut faire une phrase avec en plus.
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