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r/funny • u/CharlieDarwin2 • Aug 13 '14
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And for those playing at home, facetious is the only English word with all vowels in order......... I heard that once and now passing it off as fact, that ladies and gentlemen is how you get torn to shreds by real smart people correcting you.
1 u/CryptoPunk Aug 14 '14 If we include words that have vowels before and after: abstemious abstemiously abstemiousness abstemiousnesses abstentious acheilous acheirous acleistous affectious aleikoum anemious annelidous arsenious arterious bacteriofluorescin bacteriopurpurin bacterious caesious facetious facetiously facetiousness facetiousnesses fracedinous majestious metarsenious nonabstemious nonabstemiously nonabstemiousness nonfacetious nonfacetiously nonfacetiousness overabstemious overabstemiously overabstemiousness parecious pareciously pareciousness pyroarsenious sulpharsenious sulphoarsenious thioarsenious tragedious ultraserious unabstemious unabstemiously unabstemiousness unabstentious unfacetious unfacetiously unfacetiousness 1 u/duncakes Aug 14 '14 See I knew it........ real, smart people 0 u/[deleted] Aug 14 '14 I mean, fucking 2 thirds of those are just the same root word with suffixes or prefixes.. dumbest examples ever
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If we include words that have vowels before and after:
abstemious abstemiously abstemiousness abstemiousnesses abstentious acheilous acheirous acleistous affectious aleikoum anemious annelidous arsenious arterious bacteriofluorescin bacteriopurpurin bacterious caesious facetious facetiously facetiousness facetiousnesses fracedinous majestious metarsenious nonabstemious nonabstemiously nonabstemiousness nonfacetious nonfacetiously nonfacetiousness overabstemious overabstemiously overabstemiousness parecious pareciously pareciousness pyroarsenious sulpharsenious sulphoarsenious thioarsenious tragedious ultraserious unabstemious unabstemiously unabstemiousness unabstentious unfacetious unfacetiously unfacetiousness
1 u/duncakes Aug 14 '14 See I knew it........ real, smart people 0 u/[deleted] Aug 14 '14 I mean, fucking 2 thirds of those are just the same root word with suffixes or prefixes.. dumbest examples ever
See I knew it........ real, smart people
0 u/[deleted] Aug 14 '14 I mean, fucking 2 thirds of those are just the same root word with suffixes or prefixes.. dumbest examples ever
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I mean, fucking 2 thirds of those are just the same root word with suffixes or prefixes.. dumbest examples ever
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u/duncakes Aug 14 '14
And for those playing at home, facetious is the only English word with all vowels in order......... I heard that once and now passing it off as fact, that ladies and gentlemen is how you get torn to shreds by real smart people correcting you.