[math-fun] disyllabic panvowel
Everybody knows FACETIOUS and ABSTEMIOUS. (Which also have the vowels in order, and have adverbs if you demand y.) But can you find a disyllabic less QUESTIONABLE than HOUSEPAINT? I was shocked when Select[WordData[], ContainsAll[Characters@#, Characters@"aeiou"] &] returned 6899 hits. But most were multiword phrases like AMMONIUM NITRATE and VIRTUAL MEMORY. Precluding " " still left 1093(!), including some cheats like ACRYLONITRILE-BUTADIENE-STYRENE ("The three major food groups!" —Beldar Conehead) There is at least one aeiou single word nation, chemical element, common vegetable, hideous parasite, medical condition, impossibly common word (automobile, inoculate) . . . I wonder if it's a quiz show category. —rwg
For what it's worth, there were/are two Stanford computer science panvowel faculty of drastically different lengths: DONALD ERVIN KNUTH, and LEO GUIBAS. Never had any use for this trivia till now, so thanks for opening the category. On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 8:57 PM Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
Everybody knows FACETIOUS and ABSTEMIOUS. (Which also have the vowels in order, and have adverbs if you demand y.) But can you find a disyllabic less QUESTIONABLE than HOUSEPAINT?
I was shocked when Select[WordData[], ContainsAll[Characters@#, Characters@"aeiou"] &] returned 6899 hits. But most were multiword phrases like AMMONIUM NITRATE and VIRTUAL MEMORY. Precluding " " still left 1093(!), including some cheats like ACRYLONITRILE-BUTADIENE-STYRENE ("The three major food groups!" —Beldar Conehead)
There is at least one aeiou single word nation, chemical element, common vegetable, hideous parasite, medical condition, impossibly common word (automobile, inoculate) . . . I wonder if it's a quiz show category. —rwg _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com https://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun
RWG: "But can you find a disyllabic less QUESTIONABLE than HOUSEPAINT?" Already mentioned are the French liqueur, Cointreau, and author, Beauvoir. The French have of course the simpler "oiseau" which Dmitri Borgmann thought (Language on Vacation, 1965) elegant enough to entertain its redefinition to the so-called river/lake in southeastern Manitoba. Alas, Natural Resources Canada now has these as "historical" only, preferring Bird River/Lake. But never mind: There's still plenty of geographical Oiseaux in the "official" gazetteer, including a Point, Bay, and Creek in Thunder Bay, Ontario: http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/search?q=oiseau&category=O
Here's a 19-syllable (enneakaidecasyllabic) word that contains each vowel at least twice: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses It's the plural of: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis which only contains a single e. It's listed in Merriam-Webster: https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcan... Tom Bill Gosper writes:
Everybody knows FACETIOUS and ABSTEMIOUS. (Which also have the vowels in order, and have adverbs if you demand y.) But can you find a disyllabic less QUESTIONABLE than HOUSEPAINT?
I was shocked when Select[WordData[], ContainsAll[Characters@#, Characters@"aeiou"] &] returned 6899 hits. But most were multiword phrases like AMMONIUM NITRATE and VIRTUAL MEMORY. Precluding " " still left 1093(!), including some cheats like ACRYLONITRILE-BUTADIENE-STYRENE ("The three major food groups!" —Beldar Conehead)
There is at least one aeiou single word nation, chemical element, common vegetable, hideous parasite, medical condition, impossibly common word (automobile, inoculate) . . . I wonder if it's a quiz show category. —rwg
Mary Poppins? On Fri, Feb 1, 2019, 8:35 PM Tom Karzes <karzes@sonic.net> wrote:
Here's a 19-syllable (enneakaidecasyllabic) word that contains each vowel at least twice:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses
It's the plural of:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
which only contains a single e.
It's listed in Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcan...
Tom
Bill Gosper writes:
Everybody knows FACETIOUS and ABSTEMIOUS. (Which also have the vowels in order, and have adverbs if you demand y.) But can you find a disyllabic less QUESTIONABLE than HOUSEPAINT?
I was shocked when Select[WordData[], ContainsAll[Characters@#, Characters@"aeiou"] &] returned 6899 hits. But most were multiword phrases like AMMONIUM NITRATE and VIRTUAL MEMORY. Precluding " " still left 1093(!), including some cheats like ACRYLONITRILE-BUTADIENE-STYRENE ("The three major food groups!" —Beldar Conehead)
There is at least one aeiou single word nation, chemical element, common vegetable, hideous parasite, medical condition, impossibly common word (automobile, inoculate) . . . I wonder if it's a quiz show category. —rwg
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Hah! You're thinking of: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious It's not listed in most dictionaries, since it was made up for the Mary Poppins movie (adapted from an earlier version of the word with a different spelling). It does contain each vowel at least twice though. It has 14 syllables. Here's the history of the word (and its predecessors): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious#Word_meanin... Tom Paul Palmer writes:
Mary Poppins?
On Fri, Feb 1, 2019, 8:35 PM Tom Karzes <karzes@sonic.net> wrote:
Here's a 19-syllable (enneakaidecasyllabic) word that contains each vowel at least twice:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses
It's the plural of:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
which only contains a single e.
It's listed in Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcan...
Tom
Bill Gosper writes:
Everybody knows FACETIOUS and ABSTEMIOUS. (Which also have the vowels in order, and have adverbs if you demand y.) But can you find a disyllabic less QUESTIONABLE than HOUSEPAINT?
I was shocked when Select[WordData[], ContainsAll[Characters@#, Characters@"aeiou"] &] returned 6899 hits. But most were multiword phrases like AMMONIUM NITRATE and VIRTUAL MEMORY. Precluding " " still left 1093(!), including some cheats like ACRYLONITRILE-BUTADIENE-STYRENE ("The three major food groups!" —Beldar Conehead)
There is at least one aeiou single word nation, chemical element, common vegetable, hideous parasite, medical condition, impossibly common word (automobile, inoculate) . . . I wonder if it's a quiz show category. —rwg
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