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| 154.1 | | 2119::DEVRIES | | Wed Mar 05 1986 09:02 | 1 |
| "alphabet"? :-)
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| 154.2 | Get serious! | 17465::ROGERS | | Wed Mar 05 1986 09:19 | 1 |
| I can't believe that you're serious - you must be facetious!
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| 154.3 | | VOGON::GOODENOUGH | Jeff Goodenough, IPG Reading-UK | Wed Mar 05 1986 10:59 | 4 |
| ... and obviously not a_word_meaning_keeping_off_the_alcohol
(-.1 is a spoilsport!)
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| 154.4 | Why, that's easy ! . . . | AVANTI::OSMAN | Eric, Maynard Ma. USA, DTN 223-6664 | Wed Mar 05 1986 11:03 | 20 |
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Everyone knows that the answer is . . .
A B S T E M I O U S L Y
What's that ? You didn't know that word ? Hah !
/Eric
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| 154.5 | Beat you, Eric! | VOGON::GOODENOUGH | Jeff Goodenough, IPG Reading-UK | Wed Mar 05 1986 11:07 | 1 |
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| 154.6 | Nitrogen trichloride: treated adverbially? | OBLIO::SHUSTER | RoB ShUsTeR | Wed Mar 05 1986 11:18 | 10 |
| And, for heaven's sake, what about:
AGENIZIOUSLY ==> treat me with some NCl . Oh what a treat.
3
Ok, so it has two I's. Doesn't everyone?
-r*b
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| 154.7 | I got it! | TLE::SAVAGE | Neil, @Spit Brook | Wed Mar 05 1986 11:51 | 2 |
| Did others notice the broad hint in .2? Just suffix "ly" the last
word there. Very clever if deliberate.
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| 154.8 | Now the hard bit ... | VOGON::GOODENOUGH | Jeff Goodenough, IPG Reading-UK | Wed Mar 05 1986 12:51 | 2 |
| Find a word that does it backwards. :-)
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| 154.9 | Pointer to another location, same subject | DELNI::CANTOR | Dave Cantor | Wed Mar 05 1986 19:58 | 4 |
| See also TRIVIA.NOT (old format), note 1144, which was started
by the same person who started this topic.
Dave C.
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| 154.10 | the whole list | AVANTI::OSMAN | Eric, Maynard Ma. USA, DTN 223-6664 | Thu Mar 06 1986 09:36 | 43 |
| Here's every english word containing a,e,i,o,u and always y:
/Eric
abstemiously actinomycetous adventitiously aeronautically ambidextrously
aneuploidy audiometry authoritatively autoeciously autoerotically
autogenetically autotetraploidy basidiomycetous bimolecularly chemoautotrophically
chemotherapeutically cleistogamously coeducationally coequality commensurability
communicatively conceptualistically conceptuality consanguineously consequentiality
consequentially consuetudinary copulatively corynebacterium coulometrically
counterrevolutionary crystalliferous cytoarchitecture cytomegalovirus delusionary
denunciatory deoxyribonuclease devolutionary dichlamydeous disadvantageously
documentarily educationally efficaciously electroacoustically electrohydraulic
electrohydraulically elocutionary encouragingly equationally equilibratory
equivocality equivocally eucaryotic eudiometrically eugeosynclinal
eulogistically euphonically euphorically evolutionarily evolutionary
exclusionary facetiously farinaceously gelatinously gemmiparously
genitourinary gesticulatory grandiloquently granulocytopoiesis gregariously
heterosexuality homosexuality hyaluronidase hydrometallurgical immunoassayable
immunochemically immunoelectrophoretically immunogenetically immunogenically immunohematology
immunoreactivity immunotherapy importunately incommensurability incommensurably
inconsequentiality inconsequentially inefficaciously instantaneously insubordinately
insurrectionary intermolecularly intracutaneously intramolecularly intravenously
macroevolutionary magnetofluiddynamic magnetofluiddynamics magniloquently mendaciously
microevolutionary miscellaneously molecularity monumentality mucopolysaccharide
multidimensionality mycobacterium nefariously neurocirculatory neurofibrillary
neurogenically neurohypophysial neurologically neuropathically neurophysiological
neurophysiologically neuropsychiatric neuropsychiatrically neuropsychiatrist neuropsychiatry
neuropsychical neurotically nucleophilically oleaginously ostentatiously
perspicaciously pertinaciously phenylketonuria phenylthiourea phytohaemagglutinin
phytohemagglutinin pneumatolysis pneumatolytic praseodymium precariously
precautionary pseudomycelial psychopharmaceutical psychosexuality psychotherapeutic
psychotherapeutically psychotherapeutics pyrometallurgical questionably questionary
radiolucency renunciatory revolutionarily revolutionary sacrilegiously
semiautomatically semidocumentary sequaciously simultaneously sociosexuality
stereoregularity subcontrariety subinfeudatory subordinately subventionary
subversionary successionally supernormality supersonically temerariously
tenaciously unaffectionately unapologetically uncomplimentary uncongeniality
unconventionality unconventionally undemocratically undemonstratively unemotionally
unemployability unequivocably unequivocally unexceptionably unexceptionally
unforgettability unidirectionally uninformatively unintentionally unquestionably
unreasoningly ventriloquially veraciously vexatiously violaceously
vituperatory volumetrically voyeuristically
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| 154.11 | True, entries in .10 have all those vowels... | VAXUUM::DEVRIES | | Thu Mar 06 1986 10:22 | 1 |
| ...But, of course, not always in order.
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| 154.12 | | TLE::SAVAGE | Neil, @Spit Brook | Thu Mar 06 1986 12:01 | 3 |
| Re: .10 & .11:
And, alas, none were exactly in reverse order either.
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| 154.13 | ENOUGH ZED | CANYON::MOELLER | | Fri Mar 28 1986 14:31 | 1 |
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| 154.14 | A moving comment | TOPDOC::SLOANE | | Wed May 07 1986 14:52 | 3 |
| Are you all trying to start a vowel movement?
BS
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| 154.15 | re: .-1 | MARVIN::KNOWLES | | Tue Jun 23 1987 10:01 | 2 |
| So that's what they mean by "The Great Vowel Shift"
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| 154.16 | Neo-neologism | MARVIN::KNOWLES | | Tue Jun 23 1987 12:37 | 7 |
| RE: .8
If someone found some remains that looked like Australopithecus
in Yugoslavia, would the adjective coined to describe them be
YUGOPITHECAN?
b
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