Sunday 30 August 2009

alphabetical order

Sentence with five consecutive Ands:


The owner of the 'Hare and Hounds' bar complained to the artist who had just painted a new sign: "There should be more space between the Hare and 'and' and 'and' and Hounds..."

What do these words have in common?

CALMNESS INOPERABLE DEFER BURST LAUGHING STUPID -


Each word contains three letters in the correct alphabetical order.

Odd letter out: ABCMNOTUV -


N has no line of symmetry. The others do.




Words in the English language, each having one of each of the vowels (aeiou) in the right alphabetical order:


The most common known are probably

facetious (meaning sarcastic),

abstemious (meaning sparing or moderate),

arterious (pertaining to artery) and

annelidous (pertaining to annelid, which is a segmented worm).

There's also anemious,

adventitous,

abstentious,

acherious,

acleistous,

affectious,

aerious,

arsenious,

bacterious,

caesious,

caespitosum,

caespitosus,

fracedinous,

gareisoun,

gravedinous,

majestious,

materious,

parecious,

placentious,

tragedious,

vaceious.

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