Wordplay Wednesday (2007-03-21)

[sylvar]

In response to http://ken-jennings.com/blog/?p=374:

Old McDonald words are English words that have only five vowels–E I E I O–in that order. Can you name three such words? (There are many more than three, but I think the cutoff for common words is right around three.)

clipped from www.visca.com Results There were 13 matches for the string e.*i.*e.*i.*o.* (filtered by the string /[ ]/) in all grammatical categories. deliberation delineation experimentation predilection reconsideration refrigeration regimentation reiteration sedimentation semiprecious semiprofessional three-dimensional well-intentioned	1 to 13

String: <input ... > Not case sensitive <input ... >Â String Filter: <input ... > Not case sensitive <input ... >Â Part of Speech (database totals) Leave empty to not group results by part of speech <input ... >All (36.037) <input ... >Conjunctions (48) <input ... >Prepositions (100) <input ... >Adjectives (8.573) <input ... >Expressions (440) <input ... >Pronouns (87) <input ... >Adverbs (2.662) <input ... >Nouns (23.337) <input ... >Verbs (7.983) <input ... >

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"Only five vowels."

[ximinez]

e[!aeiou]*i[!aeiou]*e[!aeiou]*i[!aeiou]*o[!aeiou]*