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bvpraveen  +  91215 Mon, 18 Apr 05 04:58 PM
Hello friends,

Let's try for the longest word without vowels. Just for fun!!!

I will start it : RHYTHM
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Eargasms  +  91303 Mon, 18 Apr 05 11:55 PM
Hi all
The longest word is TWYNDYLLYNGS

Twyndyllyngs is the longest word in English that doesn't contain one of the five vowels (AEIOU). It comes from Welsh and is obviously rare, but it does appear in the Oxford English Dictionary.

It turns out that "twyndyllyng" (singular) is a 15th century spelling of the word "twinling," which means, in modern English, "twin."


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bvpraveen  +  91848 Wed, 20 Apr 05 03:49 PM
That's great Eargasms.

Trying to memorise its character sequence!!!

Tic...Tic...Tic...

Done!!!!!!!!!
dan_brit_abroad, 4 yr 156 days ago
how about "RHYTHMS!"
benita  +  106337 Tue, 07 Jun 05 04:40 PM
Hi! I know this is not the longest word without vowels but it sure is the fear of long words - Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia Smile [:)]

'Indivisibility' has only one vowel which occurs six times

'Strengths' is probably the longest word with one vowel (please let me know if I'm wrong)

Benita
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bvpraveen, 4 yr 154 days ago
Good Benita and Dan.
Anonymous, 4 yr 16 days ago

i think that there can't be a word without a vowel unless we make up one.

 

 

What about words with silent vowels such as: __recieve the I and Ein it are silent what if we made it without the vowels. It would look like receve right? so why don,t we take all the vowels out and say it the same.

Anonymous, 4 yr 16 days ago

i just posted but why don't we just take y and w out of the vowels list.

 

Ha Ha Ha !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous, 3 yr 348 days ago

        Hi , it is really hard ,i will try dss

                                                                                                                                                                      

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