# vowel game II -- ONLY proper nouns **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 26, 2004, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowel-game-ii-only-proper-nouns/236563 "2004-03-26T14:07:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowel-game-ii-only-proper-nouns/236563/1 "2004-03-26T14:07:36Z")
Names, places, titles, fictional characters. for example. . . AIE: Maine AOE: Harry Potter if your title is also a verb or normal word, like Soundgarden’s song “Entering”, don’t use it. AAA: Havana AAE? ---
**Author:** ![Dutch\_George](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dutch\_George](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dutch_George)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowel-game-ii-only-proper-nouns/236563/2 "2004-03-26T14:50:43Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > Names, places, titles, fictional characters. > > for example. . . > AIE: Maine > AOE: Harry Potter > > if your title is also a verb or normal word, like Soundgarden’s song “Entering”, don’t use it. > > AAA: Havana > > AAE? Raphael EUU? ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowel-game-ii-only-proper-nouns/236563/3 "2004-03-26T15:59:21Z")
> [@Dutch George](#): > > Raphael > > EUU? Let’s keep it alphabetical. AAI would be next. Passaic AAO? ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowel-game-ii-only-proper-nouns/236563/4 "2004-03-26T16:00:55Z")
Oh yeah – I think I meant “non proper nouns” or I meant “Proper names” or something like that. I think proper nouns is what I’m trying to avoid but a lot of good this announcement does in the middle of the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowel-game-ii-only-proper-nouns/236563/5 "2004-03-26T17:04:02Z")
Avalon. AAU? ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowel-game-ii-only-proper-nouns/236563/6 "2004-03-26T17:58:55Z")
Paramus AEA? ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowel-game-ii-only-proper-nouns/236563/7 "2004-03-26T18:28:49Z")
Athena AEE ---
**Author:** ![pasunejen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@pasunejen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pasunejen)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowel-game-ii-only-proper-nouns/236563/8 "2004-03-26T18:37:42Z")
AEE - McAfee AEI - ? ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowel-game-ii-only-proper-nouns/236563/9 "2004-03-26T19:07:56Z")
**Rammstein** and if you know who they are, too bad for you. But at least, they’re not **Vangelis** AEO ---
**Author:** ![pasunejen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@pasunejen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pasunejen)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowel-game-ii-only-proper-nouns/236563/10 "2004-03-26T19:18:10Z")
AEO - Palermo AEU - ? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowel-game-ii-only-proper-nouns/236563/11 "2004-03-26T19:32:09Z")
AEU – Aleut AIA? **Trunk** , what you want _are_ proper nouns. You’re forbidding such _common_ nouns as **Turkey** , which is a country, but also a bird. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowel-game-ii-only-proper-nouns/236563/12 "2004-03-26T19:42:53Z")
Thanks, Sternvogel. San Dimas AIE ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowel-game-ii-only-proper-nouns/236563/13 "2004-03-26T19:46:53Z")
Mamie (as in Eisenhower). 🙂 AII? ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowel-game-ii-only-proper-nouns/236563/14 "2004-03-26T20:04:00Z")
Tahiti (or Martini) AIO ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowel-game-ii-only-proper-nouns/236563/15 "2004-03-26T20:09:07Z")
AIO – [Anzio](http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/brochures/anzio/72-19.htm) AIU? ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowel-game-ii-only-proper-nouns/236563/16 "2004-03-26T20:17:07Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > AIO – > [Anzio](http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/brochures/anzio/72-19.htm) > > AIU? Mailbu AOA ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowel-game-ii-only-proper-nouns/236563/17 "2004-03-26T20:25:43Z")
> [@JuanitaTech](#): > > Mailbu > > AOA Man O’ War or simpler, Samoa AOE [fyi: doper’s names aren’t off limits, unless it’s a common noun, like lieu] ---
**Author:** ![pasunejen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@pasunejen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pasunejen)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowel-game-ii-only-proper-nouns/236563/18 "2004-03-26T20:39:23Z")
AOE - Capone AOI - ? ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowel-game-ii-only-proper-nouns/236563/19 "2004-03-26T20:53:48Z")
> [@pasunejen](#): > > AOI - ? Hanoi AOO ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowel-game-ii-only-proper-nouns/236563/20 "2004-03-26T21:27:34Z")
Baloo (as in our Charter Member, Sgt. Baloo.) or Manolo (as in Blahnik) AOU [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowel-game-ii-only-proper-nouns/236563.md?page=2)