longest one consonant words
Art Neuendorffer
Note: "Y" is accepted as a non-consonant only
if it ends a syllable (e.g., "hooey" & "joey")
but not otherwise (e.g., "deadeye").
B: BAOBAB
C: ACACIA
D: IODIDE
F: FEOFFEE
G: GAUGE
H: HOOEY
J: JOEY
K: KOOKIE
L: ALLELUIA
M: MAMMAE
N: NONUNION
P: EPOPOEIA
Q: QUEUE
R: AURORAE
S: OSSEOUS
T: TATTOO
V: EAVE
W: AWEE
X: IXIA
Y: YOU
Z: ZOEAE
can anyone improve on this list?
Art Neuendorffer
Nick Wedd
<aneuendor...@comcast.net> writes
QUOQUE
Latin, but appears in some English Word lists
VEUVE
French, ditto
YOYO
The second Y fails by your definition of a consonant.
Nick
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Art Neuendorffer
> <aneuendor...@comcast.net> writes
>
>> Here is a list of the longest one consonant words I could find.
Perhaps, I should say longest single consonant words
Nick Wedd wrote:
> QUOQUE
> Latin, but appears in some English Word lists
I cannot find it used alone; (generally as "tu quoque").
> VEUVE
> French, ditto
Likewise. Where is it used alone as an english word?
> YOYO
> The second Y fails by your definition of a consonant.
It doesn't matter for the case of "Y" itself.
I accept hyphenated YO-YO as an improvement on YOU.
(A Philippino word that is used alone as an english word.)
Art
Noam D. Elkies
Nick Wedd <ni...@maproom.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <3DD6BF9F...@comcast.net>, Reffrod Neuendorffer
>>Here is a list of the longest one consonant words I could find.
>> Note: "Y" is accepted as a non-consonant only
>> if it ends a syllable (e.g., "hooey" & "joey")
>> but not otherwise (e.g., "deadeye").
>> B: BAOBAB
>> C: ACACIA
>> D: IODIDE
Also DEEDED
[...]
>> S: OSSEOUS
ASSESSES, or better yet ASSESSEES, which according to the
rec.puzzles FAQ is the "longest word with one consonant".
[...]
>> W: AWEE
Whoa. What's this -- somebody who is awed? How about WOWEE then?
(Almost ten times as many Google hits as AWEE, for what that's worth)
[...]
>> Y: YOU
>YOYO
>The second Y fails by your definition of a consonant.
Both Y's begin a syllable, so are consonants by his definition.
(They're probably consonants by most English speakers' intuition,
even if linguists insist that they are semivowels.) Not that it
matters here, because the puzzle clearly allowed repeated consonants.
NDE
Mark Brader
>>> D: IODIDE
Noam Elkies:
> Also DEEDED
Come now. DIIODIDE, of course!
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> C: ACACIA
> D: IODIDE
> F: FEOFFEE
> G: GAUGE
> H: HOOEY
> J: JOEY
> K: KOOKIE
> L: ALLELUIA
> M: MAMMAE
> N: NONUNION
> P: EPOPOEIA
> Q: QUEUE
> R: AURORAE
> S: OSSEOUS
> T: TATTOO
> V: EAVE
> W: AWEE
> X: IXIA
> Y: YOU
> Z: ZOEAE
>
>can anyone improve on this list?
>
I didn't take the time to track down all the origins of these, but I think they
are all legitimate words (perhaps with varying degrees of legitimacy). At any
rate they all show up numerous times in a Google search.
B: ouabaio (kind of tree)
C: coccaceae (bacteria classification)
D: diiodide (chemical term)
J: ouija
K: Kukukuku (proper noun)
R: riroriro (type of warbler)
T: autoette (small electric vehicle; perhaps a trade name?)
V: evovae (musical term)
W: weewee?
X: euxoa (a moth genus)
Mike Keith
Word play, math, music:
http://users.aol.com/s6sj7gt/mikehome.htm
Art Neuendorffer
> In article <eaAAIhDL...@maproom.demon.co.uk>,
> Nick Wedd <ni...@maproom.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>In article <3DD6BF9F...@comcast.net>, Reffrod Neuendorffer
>><aneuendor...@comcast.net> writes
>>
>>>Here is a list of the longest one consonant words I could find.
>>
>
>>> Note: "Y" is accepted as a non-consonant only
>>> if it ends a syllable (e.g., "hooey" & "joey")
>>> but not otherwise (e.g., "deadeye").
>>
>
>>>B: BAOBAB
>>>C: ACACIA
>>>D: IODIDE
> Also DEEDED
I thought I prefered IODIDE to DEEDED
and JOEY to JUJU
but I think I do prefer maximizing the consonant #.
>>>S: OSSEOUS
>>
> ASSESSES, or better yet ASSESSEES, which according to the
> rec.puzzles FAQ is the "longest word with one consonant".
Does that include proper names?
>>>W: AWEE
>>
> Whoa. What's this -- somebody who is awed? How about WOWEE then?
> (Almost ten times as many Google hits as AWEE, for what that's worth)
The online dictionaries don't recognize WOWEE.
>>>Y: YOU
>>
>>YOYO
>>The second Y fails by your definition of a consonant.
>
> Both Y's begin a syllable, so are consonants by his definition.
> (They're probably consonants by most English speakers' intuition,
> even if linguists insist that they are semivowels.) Not that it
> matters here, because the puzzle clearly allowed repeated consonants.
Yes, but should be YO-YO.
Art
Art Neuendorffer
>
>>>>D: IODIDE
>>>
> Noam Elkies:
>
>>Also DEEDED
>
> Come now. DIIODIDE, of course!
Of course! :-)
Art Neuendorffer
>> C: ACACIA
>> D: IODIDE
>> F: FEOFFEE
>> G: GAUGE
>> H: HOOEY
>> J: JOEY
>> K: KOOKIE
>> L: ALLELUIA
>> M: MAMMAE
>> N: NONUNION
>> P: EPOPOEIA
>> Q: QUEUE
>> R: AURORAE
>> S: OSSEOUS
>> T: TATTOO
>> V: EAVE
>> W: AWEE
>> X: IXIA
>> Y: YOU
>> Z: ZOEAE
>>
>>can anyone improve on this list?
Mike Keith wrote:
> I didn't take the time to track down all the origins of these, but I think they
> are all legitimate words (perhaps with varying degrees of legitimacy). At any
> rate they all show up numerous times in a Google search.
>
> B: ouabaio (kind of tree)
<<Yet another heart medicine with 9 a digitalis-like action came from
the African arrow poison ouabain, known to its users as wabayo or
ouabaio. it works even faster & in smaller quantities than digitalis.>>
> C: coccaceae (bacteria classification)
This leads one to the interesting website:
http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/taxonomy/taxWord.html
Which has: N: Nioniinae (cicadellid)
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~dietrich/subfam/nion.html
Range: Afrotropical, Oriental, and New World.
Ecology: On undergrowth in forests.
> D: diiodide (chemical term)
> J: ouija
Trademark proper name: Ouija
> K: Kukukuku (proper noun)
http://www.art-pacific.com/artifacts/nuguinea/papuan/kukukuku.htm
<<The Angu, called Kukukuku by their neighbors, are a small, but fierce
people, previously known for their murderous surprise raids on other
groups' villages.(1) They live in very remote mountainous country back
of the Papuan Gulf. Until relatively recently much of their territory
was a long walk from all except a few mission air strips.>>
(Funny, that's what I call my neighbors.)
> R: riroriro (type of warbler)
http://www.nzbirds.com/Riroriro.html
Our most perfect winter and early spring weather comes when the wind
blows directly off the snow-clad Ruahine Range. Everywhere on the run
may be heard the long, tremulous trill of the Riroriro Warbler, rather
like a cricket's cry than a bird's. In some dark manuka thicket his
pear-shaped nest is built, or deeply set in some dense branched bush.
The nest itself is not unlike that of the British long-tailed tit,
> T: autoette (small electric vehicle; perhaps a trade name?)
http://www.golfcarcatalog.com/infoPages/interviews/dolan/dolaninterview.htm
<<Q: Was the 'Autoette' the first commercial golf car on the market?
A: The Autoette was the first one I know about. The Blood Manufacturing
Company somewhere in California. It was sort of a boxy looking car and
it had two electric motors in the rear, one on each wheel with a jack
shaft and a chain drive. The sprocket was just about the same size as
the wheel. That is probably the first one that I was familiar with.
But almost immediately there were many, many manufacturers...Electric
Carrier in Texas, Fairway King, and of course Cushman. Cushman came out
in 1954. Then there were Victor, Sears Roebuck and Electric Carrier.
They all began to proliferate in the mid fifties. By 1960 most of these
companies were gone. There were literally dozens of them. And a lot of
these companies were extremely well financed.>>
> V: evovae (musical term)
http://www.xrefer.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=239428
Evovae: This `word' consists of the vowels of `seculorum, Amen', being
the last words of the Gloria Patri (see Doxologia), and is used as a
name for the cadential endings of the Gregorian Psalm tones. These
letters are often placed under the notes of the plainsong as an
abbreviation of the words they represent.
> W: weewee?
Sure, what the Hell!
> X: euxoa (a moth genus)
http://www.cedarcreek.umn.edu/insects/album/027075544ap.html
<<The Noctuidae is an extremely large family with 18 recognized
subfamilies. Many adults are common at Solidago blooms in late
summer (Agrotis, Euxoa, Feltia, Xestia).>>
I better not catch an juvenile Euxoa at Solidago blooms!!!
http://www.rrtrack.com/ggauge.htm
G-gauge??
-----------------------------------------------
Not being picky about proper names:
S: ASSESSEES
C: COCCACEAE
N: NIONIINAE
N: NONUNION
D: DIIODIDE
L: ALLELUIA
P: EPOPOEIA
K: KUKUKUKU
T: AUTOETTE
R: RIRORIRO
R: AURORAE
F: FEOFFEE
B: OUABAIO
B: BAOBAB
M: MAMMAE
V: EVOVAE
G: G-GAUGE
W: WEEWEE
Q: QUEUE
H: HOOEY
J: OUIJA
X: EUXOA
Z: ZOEAE
Y: YO-YO
Can be improved???
Art Neuendorffer
Bob Pease
Sharon..this is a posting to a newsgroup, but you might have fun with it ..
"Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:3DD6EE6A...@comcast.net...
> Evovae: This `word' consists of the vowels of `seculorum, Amen', being
> the last words of the Gloria Patri (see Doxologia), and is used as a
> name for the cadential endings of the Gregorian Psalm tones. These
> letters are often placed under the notes of the plainsong as an
> abbreviation of the words they represent.
>
> >
Just as a matter of trivia, this was actively used in the early 20th Century
by Rome and official hymnals of the Roman Catholic Church.
I have and use a "Liber Usualis" published in Rome in 1903 which has this at
the end of Gregorian chant things for the Mass and for other rites.
Usually, the only part of the Doxology sung is
"Per omnia Saecula seculorum, amen." ( through all ages of ages..lit
forever and ever ) I don't know where you're supposed to get the notes for
"Per omnia" but my guess is that you're supposed to "Wing it" to transition
nicely from whatever you were singing before. We just usually did the same
thing by singing down a fifth for "Per" and then back up for"omnia " then
finish off the suggested chant.
Anyway, it was just Grade-School Choir stuff, and it was written out in
full in Gregorian Chant for Modern kids . ( 1940)
aside..One of the songs in out Fifth Grade regular songbook was a ripped-off
Renaissance ditty, and claimed to be written by a ten-year old Italian kid
It was dedicated to "Il Duce" (Mussolini)
In the Liber Usualis, It is spelled EUOUAE for obvious reasons.
In Liturgical latin and Italian or "Catholic" pronounciation ,the "V"
is still pronounced as the "v" in Victor, in contrast to the old Roman
tradition.
Too bad all this was replaced by mediocrity and Catholic Guitar Mass calypso
strum.
RJ Pease
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> Can be improved???
ALLOLALIA is commonly found on the Net.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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become the person you are today.
Was it worth it?"
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Art Neuendorffer
>
> . . .
>
>> Can be improved???
David S. Shukan wrote:
> ALLOLALIA is commonly found on the Net.
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/content_a.html
allolalia n. form of aphasia in which words are spoken at random.
------------------------------------------------------------
S: ASSESSEES: those who are assessed
C: COCCACEAE: spherical bacteria family
L: ALLOLALIA: form of aphasia in which words are spoken at random
N: NIONIINAE: tropical beetle
N: NONUNION: not belonging to a trade union
D: DIIODIDE: compound containing two atoms of iodine
P: EPOPOEIA: epic poetry
K: KUKUKUKU: fierce Papuan tribe
T: AUTOETTE: first commercial golf car
R: RIRORIRO: New Zealand Warbler
R: AURORAE: northern & southern lights
F: FEOFFEE: the person enfeoffed
B: OUABAIO: African arrow poison tree
B: BAOBAB: gigantic African tree
M: MAMMAE: breasts
V: EVOVAE: cadential ending for Gregorian Psalm tones
G: G-GAUGE: model train track size
W: WEEWEE: urine
Q: QUEUE: waiting line
H: HOOEY: senseless talk
J: OUIJA: board(game)used to spell out supernatural messages
X: EUXOA: moth genus
Z: ZOEAE: free-swimming planktonic crustacean larva
Y: YO-YO: a toy consisting of a spool that is reeled up and down
on a string by motions of the hand
------------------------------------------------------------
Art Neuendorffer
Ted S.
news:ar6sok$8...@dispatch.concentric.net:
> Too bad all this was replaced by mediocrity and Catholic Guitar Mass
> calypso strum.
And giving everybody your germs when you offer them some sign of Christ's
peace. (Or holding hands during the Our Father. The last time I went to
a mass where a priest tried this one, I folded my arms across my chest,
much to the consternation of the people on either side of me. ;-) I
remember when I visited my German relatives in 1989 that I was stunned
when the priest skipped this part of the Mass.
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Bob Pease
"Ted S." <fe...@bestweb.spam> wrote in message
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> Somebody claiming to be "Bob Pease" <bobp...@concentric.net> wrote in
> news:ar6sok$8...@dispatch.concentric.net:
>
> > Too bad all this was replaced by mediocrity and Catholic Guitar Mass
> > calypso strum.
>
> And giving everybody your germs when you offer them some sign of Christ's
> peace. (Or holding hands during the Our Father. The last time I went to
> a mass where a priest tried this one, I folded my arms across my chest,
> much to the consternation of the people on either side of me. ;-) I
> remember when I visited my German relatives in 1989 that I was stunned
> when the priest skipped this part of the Mass.
>
Actually the Me 'n Jesus Mass had some good moments..but Too many people
were just getting bored, especially with The same good stuff just replaced
with mediocre English whitewashed Prod Hymns.
The Rotarian Mass ( as my Dad used to call it) at least had some relevance
to communication with other people.
BTW
"evovae" really does not count in the category of the thread.
Reason: "V" is clearly a vowel in this word.
Patrick Hamlyn
And DIIODIDED is what happens to you if you argue with someone carrying DIIODIDE
:>
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David S. Shukan
>>>
>>>>>>D: IODIDE
>>>>>
>>> Noam Elkies:
>>>
>>>>Also DEEDED
>>>
>>Mark Brader wrote:
>>
>>> Come now. DIIODIDE, of course!
>>
>> Of course! :-)
>
>And DIIODIDED is what happens to you if you argue with someone carrying
>DIIODIDE
In which case, of course, run to the nearest laboratory and get DEDIIODIDED
fast!
Patrick Hamlyn
>>And DIIODIDED is what happens to you if you argue with someone carrying
>>DIIODIDE
>
>In which case, of course, run to the nearest laboratory and get DEDIIODIDED
>fast!
Well I can't beat that, but I can equal it: As you leave the lab, you overhear
the lab assistant refer to you as the DEDIIODIDEE.
Nick Wedd
<aneuendor...@comcast.net> writes
>> C: coccaceae (bacteria classification)
>
> This leads one to the interesting website:
>http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/taxonomy/taxWord.html
>
> Which has: N: Nioniinae (cicadellid)
It also has _Iyaiyai_, a genus of fossil chaoborid fly.
Richard Heathfield
>
> >>> Art Neuendorffer:
> >>>
> >>>>>>D: IODIDE
> >>>>>
> >>> Noam Elkies:
> >>>
> >>>>Also DEEDED
> >>>
> >>Mark Brader wrote:
> >>
> >>> Come now. DIIODIDE, of course!
> >>
> >> Of course! :-)
> >
> >And DIIODIDED is what happens to you if you argue with someone carrying
> >DIIODIDE
>
> In which case, of course, run to the nearest laboratory and get DEDIIODIDED
> fast!
But he might be waiting for you as you emerge from the lab, in which
case you might end up DEDEDIIODIDED.
Is this infinitely extensible?
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Art Neuendorffer wrote:
>
> C: COCCACEAE: spherical bacteria family
COUCI-COUCI: so-so (French) -- in the 1922 Roget's Thesaurus:
http://www.bartleby.com/110/651.html
> L: ALLOLALIA: form of aphasia in which words are spoken at random
ULLALULLA: mourning (Irish) -- also in the 1922 Roget's:
http://www.bartleby.com/110/839.html
> T: AUTOETTE: first commercial golf car
TETE-A-TETE
> H: HOOEY: senseless talk
AUHUHU: fish poison plant
Art Neuendorffer
RJ Pease wrote:
<<"evovae" really does not count. . .
Reason: "V" is clearly a vowel in this word.>>
Then that drops us back to:
V: VEVEY: commune on NE shore of Lake Geneva
http://www.veveytourism.ch/E/sommaire/index.htm
----------------------------------------------------------
Nick Wedd wrote:
> _Iyaiyai_, a genus of fossil chaoborid fly.
A Fly Called Iyaiyai
http://www.sciencenews.org/20010526/bob13ref.asp
http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/BOGUS/menke.html
AABAABA: species of bombardier beetle
> Art Neuendorffer wrote:
>
>> C: COCCACEAE: spherical bacteria family
Ben Zimmer wrote:
> COUCI-COUCI: so-so (French) -- in the 1922 Roget's Thesaurus:
>
> http://www.bartleby.com/110/651.html
Beats out ASSESSEES as longest if acceptable.
>> L: ALLOLALIA: form of aphasia in which words are spoken at random
>
> ULLALULLA: mourning (Irish) -- also in the 1922 Roget's:
>
> http://www.bartleby.com/110/839.html
>
>
>> T: AUTOETTE: first commercial golf car
>
>
> TETE-A-TETE
>> H: HOOEY: senseless talk
>
> AUHUHU: fish poison plant
http://kms.kapalama.ksbe.edu/students/2007/1066008/plantproject/persp.html
<<I, the 'Auhuhu plant, am the king of the seas when it comes to
catching fish. You may not notice me because I look like a weed. I may
look worthless with these hairy, ugly stems and very small white
purplish flowers, but I come to great use for catching fish. You see, my
leaves, stem, and root contains a toxic called tephrosin. The effect of
it is very intense to the fish. I overpower them and give them up to the
humans to catch and use as food. With my power, I stun the fish or
sometimes poison them. The humans call this process hola which makes
fishing easier for older adults and keikis.>>
-----------------------------------------------------------------
C: COUCI-COUCI: so-so (French)???
S: ASSESSEES: those who are assessed
T: TETE-A-TETE: private conference of two persons.
C: COCCACEAE: spherical bacteria family
L: ALLOLALIA: aphasia in which words are spoken randomly
L: ULLALULLA: mourning (Irish)?
N: NIONIINAE: tropical beetle
N: NONUNION: not belonging to a trade union
D: DIIODIDE: compound containing two atoms of iodine
P: EPOPOEIA: epic poetry
K: KUKUKUKU: fierce Papuan tribe
R: RIRORIRO: New Zealand Warbler
R: AURORAE: northern & southern lights
F: FEOFFEE: the person enfeoffed
B: AABAABA: species of bombardier beetle
B: OUABAIO: African arrow poison tree
Y: IYAIYAI: genus of fossil chaoborid fly.
Y: AYE-AYE: Madagascar species of lemur
M: MAMMAE: breasts
G: G-GAUGE: model train track size
W: WEE-WEE: urine
V: EVOVAE: cadential ending for Gregorian Psalm tones???
V: VEVEY: commune on NE shore of Lake Geneva
Q: QUEUE: waiting line
J: OUIJA: board(game)used to spell out supernatural messages
X: EUXOA: moth genus
Z: ZOEAE: free-swimming crustacean planktonic larva
--------------------------------------------------------
Art Neuendorffer
Bob Pease
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Newspaper article heading:
DADA DUDE DAD DEDEDIIODIDED DEAD DEDEDIIODIDEE DODO.
Ted S.
wrote in news:3DD7C1A...@comcast.net:
><<"evovae" really does not count. . .
> Reason: "V" is clearly a vowel in this word.>>
>
> Then that drops us back to:
>
> V: VEVEY: commune on NE shore of Lake Geneva
>
> http://www.veveytourism.ch/E/sommaire/index.htm
Vevey may be best known for being the headquarters of Nestlé (yum, yum!)
Art Neuendorffer
> wrote in news:3DD7C1A...@comcast.net:
>><<"evovae" really does not count. . .
>> Reason: "V" is clearly a vowel in this word.>>
>>
>>Then that drops us back to:
>>
>> V: VEVEY: commune on NE shore of Lake Geneva
>>
>>http://www.veveytourism.ch/E/sommaire/index.htm
Ted S. wrote:
> Vevey may be best known for being the headquarters of Nestlé (yum, yum!)
EPOPOEIA: Vevey cocoa assesses couci-couci.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
C: COUCI-COUCI: ??so-so (French)??
S: ASSESSEES: those who are assessed
T: TETE-A-TETE: private conference of two persons.
C: COCCACEAE: spherical bacteria family
L: ALLOLALIA: aphasia in which words are spoken randomly
L: ULLALULLA: ?mourning (Irish)?
N: NIONIINAE: tropical beetle
N: NONUNION: not belonging to a trade union
D: DIIODIDE: compound containing two atoms of iodine
P: EPOPOEIA: epic poetry
K: KUKUKUKU: fierce Papuan tribe
Q: QUIAQUIA: small fusiform fish of western Atlantic
R: RIRORIRO: New Zealand Warbler
R: AURORAE: northern & southern lights
F: FEOFFEE: the person enfeoffed
B: AABAABA: species of bombardier beetle
B: OUABAIO: African arrow poison tree
Y: IYAIYAI: genus of fossil chaoborid fly.
Y: AYE-AYE: Madagascar species of lemur
B: BAOBAB: a broad-trunked Old World tropical tree
M: MAMMAE: breasts
M: MUUMUU: a long loose distributed by Hawaiian missionaries
M: MAU-MAU: anti-European secret society in colonial Kenya
Z: ZOOZOO: The wood pigeon. [Prov. Eng.]
G: G-GAUGE: model train track size
W: WEE-WEE: urine
V: EVOVAE: ??cadential ending for Gregorian Psalm tones??
V: VEVEY: NEstlé commune on NE shore of Lake Geneva
J: OUIJA: board(game) used to spell out supernatural messages
X: EUXOA: moth genus
--------------------------------------------------------
Art Neuendorffer
Dan Tilque
produced:
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> RJ Pease wrote:
>
> <<"evovae" really does not count. . .
> Reason: "V" is clearly a vowel in this word.>>
>
> Then that drops us back to:
>
> V: VEVEY: commune on NE shore of Lake Geneva
EVVIVA: The cry of 'Long live (the king)'; hence, a shout of
applause. [OED]
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Art Neuendorffer
> Art Neuendorffer performed an arpeggio on a keyboard
(It's legal in most states.)
> and produced:
>>----------------------------------------------------------
>>RJ Pease wrote:
>>
>><<"evovae" really does not count. . .
>> Reason: "V" is clearly a vowel in this word.>>
>>
>>Then that drops us back to:
>>
>> V: VEVEY: commune on NE shore of Lake Geneva
> EVVIVA: The cry of 'Long live (the king)';
> hence, a shout of applause. [OED]
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C: COUCI-COUCI: so-so
S: ASSESSEES: those who are assessed
T: TETE-A-TETE: private conference of two persons.
C: COCCACEAE: spherical bacteria family
L: ALLOLALIA: aphasia in which words are spoken randomly
L: ULLALULLA: a dirge for the dead
N: NIONIINAE: tropical beetle
N: NONUNION: not belonging to a trade union
D: DIIODIDE: compound containing two atoms of iodine
P: EPOPOEIA: epic poetry
P: PIOUPIOU: flax skirts worn by Maori
K: KUKUKUKU: fierce Papuan tribe
Q: QUIAQUIA: small fusiform fish of western Atlantic
R: RIRORIRO: New Zealand Warbler
R: AURORAE: northern & southern lights
F: FEOFFEE: the person enfeoffed
B: AABAABA: species of bombardier beetle
B: OUABAIO: African arrow poison tree
Y: IYAIYAI: genus of fossil chaoborid fly.
Y: AYE-AYE: Madagascar species of lemur
B: BAOBAB: a broad-trunked Old World tropical tree
M: MAMMAE: breasts
M: MUUMUU: a long loose distributed by Hawaiian missionaries
M: MAU-MAU: anti-European secret society in colonial Kenya
Z: ZOOZOO: The wood pigeon. [Prov. Eng.]
V: EVVIVA: The cry of 'Long live (the king)'
G: G-GAUGE: model train track size
W: WEE-WEE: urine
J: JUJUY: city in NW Argentina
J: OUIJA: board(game) used to spell out supernatural messages
X: EUXOA: moth genus
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Art Neuendorffer
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> C: COUCI-COUCI: so-so
In French, only exists COUCI-COUÇA who has the same meaning.
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Seraph
> Noam D. Elkies wrote:
>> In article <eaAAIhDL...@maproom.demon.co.uk>,
>> Nick Wedd <ni...@maproom.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>W: AWEE
>>
>> Whoa. What's this -- somebody who is awed? How about WOWEE then?
>> (Almost ten times as many Google hits as AWEE, for what that's worth)
>
> The online dictionaries don't recognize WOWEE.
I cant find "awee" in dictionary.com or www.m-w.com
I personally think "away" would make a better 4 letter 'w' word.