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Author Message   Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 06:10 pm:    1 - What property links the words dermatoglyphics, misconjugatedly and uncopyrightables? 2 - What record is held by the word Rotavator? 3 - What property links the words almost, biopsy, and chintz? 4 - What is the longest English word with no Vowels? 5 - What is the longest English word with only one vowel? 6 - What do the following words have in common? rupturewort, pepperwort, perpetuity, proprietor, typewriter, requietory, repertoire, tripertite, pourriture, powertrip, powertripper.   Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.25.19.91 Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 06:29 pm:    6. All based on letters on top row of typewriter.   Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.25.19.91 Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 06:31 pm:    1. No repetition of letters?   Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.25.19.91 Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 06:32 pm:    4 + 5: something with lots of Ys in them.   Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.25.19.91 Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 06:33 pm:    2. Longest palindrome.   Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.25.19.91 Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 06:34 pm:    3. Ah, yes: letters in same order as appear in alphabet.   Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 06:38 pm:    all right except for 4 and 5...   Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.25.19.91 Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 06:41 pm:    Dunno, I'm afraid. But I bet they have lots of Ys in them. Do I get half a mark?   Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.25.19.91 Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 06:42 pm:    Is 5 synonym?   Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.25.19.91 Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 06:43 pm:    Symphony?   Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 06:46 pm:    Good, but no cigar. There's no Y in the answer to number 5...   Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.25.19.91 Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 06:50 pm:    Hmm . . . Hard one. Not sure. Will keep thinking.   Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 06:53 pm:    Actually, I've just found another 9 letter word with only one vowel in (and it does have a Y in - it's a related word to the longest word with no vowel)   Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 166.216.226.189 Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 06:57 pm:    (Words with friends, RCMB style....) My last name is one of the longest with one vowel (and 7 consanants!).   Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 07:01 pm:    Dickhead has 3 vowels?   Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 166.216.226.189 Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 07:53 pm:    Oh, kay.... Congratulations, I suppose. So what are they?   Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.25.19.91 Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 08:49 pm:    So what're the answers, Webbyboy?   Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 09:01 pm:    No. 4 - lynx? I know that's not very long but I can't think of another one. Sure that's wrong though. Can I have a point for trying? Please, please, pretty please.   Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.25.19.91 Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 09:33 pm:    Don't tell me, it's a Welsh town name.   Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.115.204 Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 09:34 pm:    4 - rhythm? (As in "I saw Gary Fry buying another rhythm magazine today")...   Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.115.204 Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 09:34 pm:    ...or Twyndyllyngs? Although I did cheat for that one...   Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.25.19.91 Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 09:37 pm:    Mick: sssshhhhhhhh. And I won't tell them about the Whitby rentboy you tried to order.   Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.115.204 Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 11:21 pm:    Tried? Hah! I was successful after you went home!   Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.167.144.49 Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 11:56 pm:    Mick - add an S and your there with Rhythm the two longest with only the one vowel are Rhythmics - the study of rhythms - and strengths. Was my potshot at Craig a little bit undeserved?   Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 01:52 am:    No, it was de-served about as adequately as you could manage.

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