==> language/vowels.repeated.s <== Article 23235 of rec.puzzles: Newsgroups: rec.puzzles Path: questrel!news.cerf.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!princeton!phoenix.Princeton.EDU!cgseife From: cgseife@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Charles Geoffrey Seife) Subject: Re: possibly original puzzle... Message-ID: <1993May1.034910.21220@Princeton.EDU> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: phoenix.princeton.edu Organization: Princeton University References: <93118.193310RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu> <1993Apr29.222358.1@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu> Date: Sat, 1 May 1993 03:49:10 GMT Lines: 28 In article zed@Dartmouth.EDU (Ted Schuerzinger) writes: >In article <1993Apr29.222358.1@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu> >u96_amckenna@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu writes: > > >Unfortunately, that's not what the question asked -- it states that the >first two vowels must be the same. > >For three vowels in a row, I came up with words like "booing" and >"cooing". A better one might be "agreeable". I haven't come up with >one for four yet, but I read in an old edition of Guinness that there's >an Estonian word that contains has the same vowel four times in a row. >Since the question didn't specify English words, I guess this would be >acceptable, as would words in other agglutinative languages (eg. >Finnish) :-) > > >--Ted Schuerzinger The Estonian word 'Ja"a"a"a"rne', which means "standing by the edge of the ice."