The correct order of vowels–aeiou
Although unoriental contains all the vowels (and in reverse order) they are not in the order of aeiou.
Only two words (to my knowledge and barring the plurals of said words etc) that have double "u"s. Vacuum and Continuum.
Being a poet, and therefore allowed to make words up and generally vex people, I have created a word that rhymes with month, and a word that ends in “gry” and used both in my poetry. Of course, they are both misspellings, and will probably be corrected when I die and my book is posthumously printed, but my true fans will know my genius… oh, and you guys.
- underwound, underfund
Have a few more double-U words:
Muumuu, duumvirate, residuum.
Many of your questions will be answered here. I’m too lazy to go look up the answers though, that will be an exercise left for the alert reader.
“The only word with four vowels in a row: Onamotopoeia”
how about miaou? queue?
Delta-9 quotes from the E-mail message:
> 12. To “testify” was based on men in the Roman court
> swearing to a statement made by swearing on their
> testicles.
No, “testify” comes from the Latin word “testis” meaning a witness. “Testicle” seems to have come ultimately from “testis” also, possibly because the testicles were witnesses to a person’s manhood.
more word trivia to debunk:
I always heard that the only english word with six consecutive consonants was:
watchspring
I’m sure you guys could come up with some more valid words to have six consecutive consonants, and while my spidey-sense tells me that there MUST be more, I can’t think of any.
To me, “cleave” meaning split apart always applies to a single object which breaks or splits, and can imply either
passive or active voice: “Calcite crystals will cleave easily and perfectly”, but also, “The force of the geologist’s hammer cleft the rock”. You’d never hear about
two discrete entities “cleaving” in that context. You wouldn’t hear “The lovers were cleft by their incompatibilites”.
Cleave (stick) implies discrete objects coming together, e.g. “His tongue cleaved to the roof of his mouth and he coiuldn’t say ‘Frankincense’ without getting big laughs”
$0.02
The word “scan” can mean to look over something hastily without paying a lot of attention to details or to look at something very carefully and intently.
The words “comely” and “homely,” if I am told correctly, exchange definitions between British English and American. In American, “comely” means attractive and “homely” is unattractive.
Any Brits to say I’m right or wrong out there?
Although if you’re not exactly sure what this official title is, you can always revert to:
the sub-bookeep person
(that’s FIVE) 
Sorry - means the same over here. If you were to call my wife homely, I’d be insulted. Of course if you were to call my wife comely I’d probably be insulted and tell you to watch where you were staring.
“latchstring”
Also from Lederer:
Four vowels in a row: aqueous, sequoia
Five vowels in a row: queueing
Vowels in order: abstentious, adventitious, parecious
Top-row key words: proprietor, perpetuity
Could I call your wife Stella?
Also, the Brits use the word c*nt to mean arse. They also
drive on the wrong side of the road.
Is there any word with two i’s in a row
besides skiing?
Radii - plural of radius
Re: #&
As I recall, there are any number of multisyllabic names of chemical compounds found in Beilstein that are far longer. While they are not in common parlance, they are undeniably English words.
Please tell me you’re being humerous. otherwise you’re very confused.