Re: Re: FW: [DSNA] Fwd: Two English words with all the vowels (and y) in order

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

Ah, yeah, and relaxing the rules only a little bit there is Yogui Berra (who 
must have spelled it that way some of the time, so that folks wouldn't think 
it was pronounced "yo! gee!").
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In a message dated 1/20/03 11:03:09 AM, laurence.horn at YALE.EDU writes:


> At 9:46 AM -0500 1/18/03, Frank Abate wrote:
> >Jesse sure nailed this, below.  BUT, here is a related quiz for you . . .
> >
> >Who is the ONLY major league player EVER to have all 5 vowels in his first
> >name?
> >
> >You have thirty seconds . . .
> >
> >Frank Abate
> 
> It took me more than thirty seconds, but relaxing the rules a bit I
> can supplement Margaret's correct response (Aurelio Rodriguez, the
> good-field no-hit third-sacker of the Tigers et al.) with "Figueroa,
> Ed" (it is his first name in the phone book--or Chinese style, as
> we've learned from Yao Ming) and then, speaking of ex-Tigers, there's
> Mark "the Bird" Fidrych, known in Francophone circles as "Oiseau"
> Fidrych.
> 
> >
> >*******************************************************
> >
> >On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 10:22:55PM -0600, Luanne von Schneidemesser wrote:
> >  > >
> >>  >I'm looking for the two words in the English language that have the
> >>  >letters "a e i o u y" in the word in order, they can be separated by
> >other
> >>  >letters.  Can you help?
> >[Jesse S.:]
> >The two? What makes you think there are only two?
> >
> >There are a number of words in English with the vowels in order, including
> >_abstemious, abstentious, adventitious,_ and _facetious_, along with some
> >more obscure ones like _caesious_ (the shortest in English with the five
> >main vowels in order) and _parecious_. Most of these can have an _-ly_
> >suffix, giving the letters you ask for. Drop _adventitious_ from the list
> >if you are bothered by the repeated _i_s, but there are certainly more
> >than two.
> >
> 
> I've usually seen this with the answer "abstemiously" and
> "facetiously"; I assume the other adverbs-in-waiting are either not
> considered "words" or (in the case of "adventitiously") not
> well-formed according to the riddle for the reason Jesse mentions.
> 
> larry (upset that he couldn't answer the original query in time
> because he had no internet access this weekend)
> 
> 
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