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    Posted: 23 Nov 07 at 1:42pm
Originally posted by English Dave

But if you want a really useless fact...

..."facetious" is the only word in the English language that has all the vowels just once, in order.

Oh I can hear your brains whirring!

Abstemious...

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Originally posted by tmoore

Originally posted by English Dave

Originally posted by Smight at BBSC

How very wise of you  

Wise = Sage

Sage = SAGA

SAGA=Old

QED

 

very logical thought process there.

just one flaw, that was used to describe me. im 18 and so not old.

but nicely reasoned

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Caesious, eight letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels in alphabetical order. Nine letter words with this property are acheilous, acheirous, aerobious, arsenious, arterious, autecious, facetious, and parecious.
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Facetiously, eleven letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all six vowels in alphabetical order. A twelve letter word with this property is abstemiously. The fourteen letter words adventitiously and sacrilegiously have this property but also have repeated vowels.

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aerobious and autecious don't work! (repeated and early 'o' and early 'u' rspectively). Also  "sacrilegiously" also doesn' work - should it be "sacreligiously"? .

Edit:   "sacreligiously" doesn't work either!  Doh! Try "sacreligously"



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Did you know that a goose sh*ts every seven minutes.

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Originally posted by GK.LaserII

Did you know that a goose sh*ts every seven minutes.

Wasn't sure of the timing but I wouldn't be at all surprised judging by the amount we find round the lake.

 

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