An oldie but goodie

Originally posted by mentoring23
very old one indeed; I was told many many years ago only one answer = bookkeeper

The guy who works for him might be a subbookkeeper

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Lots of words with no vowels because of the use of Y but can anyone come up with a 4 letter word with no consonants. Also what is the longest word that contains no repitition of letters within the word? 🙂

Originally posted by Acolyte

There are many words in English which only contain one vowel (eg there). But which of them contains the most repetitions of a vowel?

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I don't get it. What is the pattern?

For the very forst post in this Thread about the ottffsse thing

Where's the fun in this? The language is finite.

(Bennett bait.)

Originally posted by abejnood
For the very forst post in this Thread about the ottffsse thing

Continuing the pattern, and grouping the letters may help you some....

ottffssen
tettffssen
tttttttttt
tttttttttt
ffffffffff
ffffffffff
ssssssssss
ssssssssss
eeeeeeeeee
nnnnnnnnnn

Originally posted by kingofthe303
Lots of words with no vowels because of the use of Y but can anyone come up with a 4 letter word with no consonants. Also what is the longest word that contains no repitition of letters within the word? 🙂

I've laid euoi (pronounced u-oi, an interjective expressing Bacchic frenzy) in scrabble, before my wife banned words she doesn't approve of (best description of the current rule). I also know the word euouae ( name for a Gregorian cadence, pronounced u-oo'e) And Uoiauai (don't know pronounciation) is apparently a language spoken somewhere in Brazil.

A most excellent answer indeed 🙂

This isn't a puzzle or anything, just interesting. There is a Biblical name of a land that is six letters long and contains all five vowels. Eoudia. I wouldn't have thought a word like that existed.

Originally posted by IronPawnX
This isn't a puzzle or anything, just interesting. There is a Biblical name of a land that is six letters long and contains all five vowels. Eoudia. I wouldn't have thought a word like that existed.

Not Eoudia but Euodia; not a place name, but a person's name. (See Philippians chaper 4 v2)

The prefix "Eu" means "good", "odia" might be a feminine form of the word "hodos", meaning "way", so not a completely unlikely name.

As it happens, one Bible I checked spells it Evodia - when translated to English 'eu' often becomes 'ev', as in 'evangelist', so if we look at it in English it might not keep all five vowels. On the other hand, if we look at it in Greek, it's not so interesting, because there are seven vowels in that language. Sorry.

And now do the same thing with:

e t d v v z z a n t e t

Originally posted by kingofthe303
Also what is the longest word that contains no repitition of letters within the word? 🙂

No takers for this one - the longest word I know is UNCOPYRIGHTABLE at 15 letters and no repetitions. 🙂