Language Questions

[PDJ]

Mo got me thinking and I came up with 4.

1) Which word in English has 6 vowels, each of them an A?

2) Name the 2 words in English that have all 5 vowels in, in the correct order

3) Name a 15 letter word in English that has 15 different letters in it.

4) What are the 5 words in English that end -dous?

 

[betsmate]

Taramasalata

 

[PDJ]

Yep.

 

[BrianH]

2 (i) Facetious

(ii) Abstemious

4 (i) Tremendous

(ii) Stupendous

(iii) Horrendous

 

[Diamond Geezer]

Answer to 2 is facetious and abstemious

 

[BrianH]

Which is what I said... :lol:

 

[Melendez]

I know an eight letter word that has 26 different letters in it.

Boom Boom!

 

[betsmate]

Hazardous

 

[BrianH]

3. Uncopyrightable

4 (vi) Hazardous

 

[betsmate]

Which is what I said

 

[BrianH]

And (v) Annelidous

 

[betsmate]

vi) jeopardous?

 

[PDJ]

My final answer was jeopardous.

 

[BrianH]

Originally posted by PDJ@Jun 21 2005, 08:08 PM
My final answer was jeopardous.

An unacceptable Americanism

 

[Melendez]

You'd never get away with Annelidous in scrabble in my house, whether or not it exists. We don't like smart-arses.

 

[Melendez]

It's also an answer to question 2.

 

[betsmate]

Mel - why is Annelidous uncopyrightable?

 

[Melendez]

I don't know - why is Annelidious uncopyrightable?

 

[betsmate]

I was trying to be clever, but once again failed miserably!!!

Uncopyrightable is the answer to question 3 (not question 2 as I mis-read)

Doh!

 

[Colin Phillips]

TARASAMALATA................is English!?

 

[Venusian]

Bananaramafan

 

[Maurice]

:lol:

 

[Maurice]

OK - without Googling or looking up a dictionary...

What does petrichor / petricor mean?

 

[krizon]

Exactly what I was thinking! It's 20th Century Modern Greek, for goodness' sake! h

 

[krizon]

Absolutely no idea, Mo, so I'll go for something to do with feet, or walking.