# Riddle?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle/3626>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 1, 1999, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle/3626 "1999-10-01T12:27:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![the\_first\_supraliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@the\_first\_supraliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_first_supraliminal)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle/3626/1 "1999-10-01T12:27:00Z")

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What’s the only US city spelled completely with vowels?

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**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle/3626/2 "1999-10-01T12:49:00Z")

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How the fuck should I know?

I’m Canadian. We have problems of our own.

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According to the Pope, a woman can be a saint, but not a priest.

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**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle/3626/3 "1999-10-01T14:43:00Z")

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Aiea - approximately 12 miles northwest of Honolulu, Hawaii.

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**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle/3626/4 "1999-10-01T15:36:00Z")

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I used to live in Aiea, pronounced Eye-AY-Ah (AY is long A). About 15,000, it’s pretty much a suburb of Honolulu north of Pearl Harbor. Aloha Stadium is there (home of the Pro Bowl and the UH Rainbow Warriors).

One Aiea attraction is Pearlridge Mall, where the mall is in 2 wings connected by a monorail. Loads of fun, but it’s quicker just to walk between the two sections.

If you’re a vowel fan, make a visit to Kaaawa (pronounced Kah-ah-ah-va). In Hawaiian, the “W” is pronounced like a “V”, unless it’s the first letter. So the state is pronounced “Havaii”. Official spelling is Hawai’i (with the glottal stop, called _okina_).

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle/3626/5 "1999-10-01T16:17:00Z")

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OK, now, next question: what’s the only American City spelled entirely with consonants?

Answer: New York. They don’t pronounce any of the vowels anyway.

Sorry.

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 1999, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle/3626/6 "1999-10-02T05:55:00Z")

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**Tourist:** Is it pronounced \*Ha-wai-i[/] or _Ha-vai-i_?

**Hawaiian:** Ha-vai-i

**Tourist:** Thank you.

**Hawaiian:** You’re Velcome.

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TT

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Doubt those who find it.” --Andre Gide

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**Author:** ![the\_first\_supraliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@the\_first\_supraliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_first_supraliminal)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 1999, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle/3626/7 "1999-10-02T13:34:00Z")

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Dammit! I didn’t think it would be that easy.

Note to self: Never underestimate the SDMB.

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**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle/3626/8 "2000-06-20T19:56:10Z")

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How ah yee? (hawaii)

I’ll ask her (alaska)