twb@mhuxh.UUCP (twb) (04/19/85)
Ques: What is the longest english word with only one vowel?
(I know of a 9 letter, single vowel word, anyone have a longer one?)
Ques: What is the longest english word that can be typed using a single row
of a standard keyboard?
(I know of a 10 letter word)
Tom.
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> Ques: What is the longest english word with only one vowel? > (I know of a 9 letter, single vowel word, anyone have a longer one?) > > Ques: What is the longest english word that can be typed using a single row > of a standard keyboard? > (I know of a 10 letter word) And here's another one: What is the longest (= having the most letters) one-syllable english word? (I know one which is 8 letters, but it is only one-syllable in a dialect.) --pH /* * "Pardon me for breathing, which I don't do anyway so I don't * know why I bother apologising for it, oh GOD I'm so depressed." */
wws@whuxlm.UUCP (Stoll W William) (04/21/85)
> > Ques: What is the longest english word with only one vowel? > > (I know of a 9 letter, single vowel word, anyone have a longer one?) > > > > Ques: What is the longest english word that can be typed using a single row > > of a standard keyboard? > > (I know of a 10 letter word) > > And here's another one: What is the longest (= having the most > letters) one-syllable english word? > (I know one which is 8 letters, but it is only one-syllable in a > dialect.) > --pH straights strengths By the way, the second one also is single vowel. Now let me propose one... What is the shortest three-syllable word? I could think of several five-letter words, but was reduced to proper names to find a 4-letter word. Re: shortest sentence containing all the letters. I used to watch Sesame Street when it first came out (it used to be the only place Muppets could be found). Big Bird discovered a *single* word containing all the letters in the alphabet, in order even! It was actually the alphabet itself, but he pronounced it ' ' ' u ' -- ' ab-buh-kuh-def-gee-jek-kull-muh-nop-kwer-stoov-wick-siz Well, it was interesting at the time... Bill Stoll, ..!whuxlm!wws "Come and play, everything's A-OK..."
gjerawlins@watdaisy.UUCP (Gregory J.E. Rawlins) (04/21/85)
In article <286@mhuxh.UUCP> twb@mhuxh.UUCP (twb) writes: >Ques: What is the longest english word with only one vowel? >(I know of a 9 letter, single vowel word, anyone have a longer one?) Please post it! The longest i could come up with was "strength" which is only 8 letters long. greg. -- Gregory J.E. Rawlins, Department of Computer Science, U. Waterloo {allegra|clyde|linus|inhp4|decvax}!watmath!watdaisy!gjerawlins
mag@whuxlm.UUCP (Gray Michael A) (04/22/85)
> > Now let me propose one... > What is the shortest three-syllable word? I could think of several > five-letter words, but was reduced to proper names to find a 4-letter > word. > > Bill Stoll, ..!whuxlm!wws > How about "area"? and "aria"? Here's another question: Regarding cursive writing, what is the longest word that can be written without a looped letter above or below the line? An old copy of a Ripley's Believe It or Not claimed that there was a tie between "reconnaissance" and "commissionaire", both 14 letters, but I thought of a 15-letter one, in everyday use. Mike Gray
mag@whuxlm.UUCP (Gray Michael A) (04/22/85)
> > > > Now let me propose one... > > What is the shortest three-syllable word? I could think of several > > five-letter words, but was reduced to proper names to find a 4-letter > > word. > > > > Bill Stoll, ..!whuxlm!wws > > > How about "area"? and "aria"? > Thought of a couple more - iota and idea. Mike Gray
presley@mhuxj.UUCP (Joe Presley) (04/22/85)
> From: gjerawlins@watdaisy.UUCP (Gregory J.E. Rawlins) > Message-ID: <7203@watdaisy.UUCP> > >Ques: What is the longest english word with only one vowel? > >(I know of a 9 letter, single vowel word, anyone have a longer one?) > Please post it! The longest i could come up with was > "strength" which is only 8 letters long. Try adding an 's' to the end of it ... :-). -- Joe Presley (mhuxm!presley)
bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert) (04/23/85)
> Ques: What is the longest english word with only one vowel? > (I know of a 9 letter, single vowel word, anyone have a longer one?) >> How about HOLLYHOCKS. It onyl has one vowel but used twice??
schneider@vlnvax.DEC (04/23/85)
> What is the shortest three-syllable word? I could think of several > five-letter words, but was reduced to proper names to find a 4-letter > word. Area is an interesting 3-syllable, 4-letter word. You can take the last letter off and be left with a 1-syllable, 3-letter word. This leads to the question: Is the article "a" really two syllables? Daniel Schneider {decvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-vlnvax!schneider
li63sfh@sdcc7.UUCP (Philip Kao) (04/23/85)
reply to shortest three syllable non-proper word
how about "iota" i think it means just a tiny
amount taken from greek or roman descent but is
not considered a proper noun.
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> >Ques: What is the longest english word with only one vowel? > >(I know of a 9 letter, single vowel word, anyone have a longer one?) > Please post it! The longest i could come up with was > "strength" which is only 8 letters long. > greg. > -- How 'bout "strengths" ? -- Kris Stephens (408-746-6047) {whatever}!amdahl!krs [The opinions expressed above are mine, solely, and do not ] [necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of Amdahl Corp. ]
dsr@uvacs.UUCP (Dana S. Richards) (04/26/85)
I am not always in tune with netiquette and how and why people use the net. Do people who post puzzles do so in the spirit of a ice-breaker or are they really looking for the best answer or better, are they looking for references. I prefer the latter, but I am a stick in the mud sometimes. For example here are some known answers to recent postings: Longest one syllable word- Martin Gardner (all of whose books should be read and reread) in an uncollected column (about 6 years ago) mentioned the discovery SCHNAPSSED and BROUGHAMMED. (These are not in my WEB2 but as I recall they were in Random House (?).) Words in alphabetical order naturally- The long program given for this is far more complicated than the one-line egrep call in Kernighan & Pike (1984, p.104). They discovered, as Aho did years earlier while working on pattern matching, the word EGILOPS. Actually they missed the below-the-line (WEB2) variant AEGILOPS. Shortest word with all vowels- SEQUOIA (I dimly recall a foreign term with 6 letters ...) Vowels in order- FACETIOUSLY and ABSTEMIOUSLY are well-known but there are about 15 other examples that appeared in Word Ways:The Journal of Recreational Linguistics, an excellent source that settled these questions, and similar questions, years ago. 1000 Lockers- This appeared in the first issue of the now defunct 4-Star Puzzler (an offshoot of the excellent Games magazine) and appeared in Honsberger's column years ago and is based on well-known excersize in Number Theory texts. Shortest word list with letters in order- Do not recall the best known answer but is in Word Ways recently. And now a challenge that was posted in Word Ways: Find the smallest pangrammatic window in naturally occurring text, i.e. a contiguous set of letters containing all 26 letters. The current record is somewhat less than 100 letters.
dsr@uvacs.UUCP (Dana S. Richards) (04/26/85)
I forgot to mention some other known answers to recent postings: Shortest 3 syllable word- W Weighing problems- These have been extensively studied over the last 40 years. e.g. Math Mag V61 (1977) 90-92 AMM V87 (1980) 200-201
cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard) (11/15/85)
In article <2052@uvacs.UUCP> dsr@uvacs.UUCP (Dana S. Richards) writes: >Shortest word list with letters in order- > Do not recall the best known answer but is in Word Ways recently. What do you mean, "shortest word list"? The shortest word with letters in order is "a". -- /''`\ Andre Guirard ([]-[]) De Tuss from de Tonn \ o / ihnp4!mmm!cipher `-'
gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) (11/15/85)
> >Shortest word list with letters in order- > > Do not recall the best known answer but is in Word Ways recently. > > What do you mean, "shortest word list"? > > The shortest word with letters in order is "a". A mathematician would point out that the empty list is even shorter.
herb@uwvax.UUCP (Benington Herb) (11/15/85)
> > >Shortest word list with letters in order- > > > Do not recall the best known answer but is in Word Ways recently. > > > > What do you mean, "shortest word list"? > > > > The shortest word with letters in order is "a". > > A mathematician would point out that the empty list is even shorter. This problem has probably been on the net many times but my son posed it recently and I need help. What are some of the longest words with letters in ascending order? descending? with repeats of same letter? without repeats?What are other interesting,closely related problems? Thanks for any help. Herb
dsr@uvacs.UUCP (Dana S. Richards) (11/19/85)
> In article <2052@uvacs.UUCP> dsr@uvacs.UUCP (Dana S. Richards) writes: > >Shortest word list with letters in order- > > Do not recall the best known answer but is in Word Ways recently. > > What do you mean, "shortest word list"? > > The shortest word with letters in order is "a". > By "letters" I naturally meant all 26. I have been unable to find the shortest, in terms of words, in Word Ways as advertised but have found there a discussion of such lists with few total letters. The problem originated in the defunct Games and Puzzles. Early solutions: ABC, defy, ghi, jak, limn, op, queriest, uva, waxy, zo absconder, fig, hijack, limn, opaque, rust, unviewed, ox, oyez Later solutions: ABC, defyghe, bij, sklim, nop, qris, tu, vow, XYZ ... queriest, uvrow, XYZ ABC, def, ghi, jak, limn, op, qris, tu, vow, XYZ Jeff Grant: ABC, defog, hij, klam, nop, queriest, uvrow, XYZ .... qrs, tu, vow, XYZ .... hijack, limnophil, queriest, uvrow, XYZ Dimitri Borgmann: a, bic, defog, hijack, limn, opaquer, stu, vow, oxy, oz [oz, pyx, wave, ut, sir, quip, on, milk, jib, hug, fed, cob, a] The last example(s) is composed of "easily-recognized" words; the other examples require a variety of dictionaries. I do not know of a claim of optimality wrt a set dictionaries. I will leave to you to count the letters and words in each example. As I recall someone posted a 3 (long) word example. What was it? I would guess that 3 words is minimum. What is the availability of dictionaries in computer format? All we have is the spelling dictionary; I know that Web2, 7th Collegiate, and the OSPD are being used somewhere.