Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cae780.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!cae780!gordon From: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon) Newsgroups: net.puzzle Subject: Even more word games Message-ID: <769@cae780.UUCP> Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 14:06:49 EST Article-I.D.: cae780.769 Posted: Wed Apr 24 14:06:49 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 27-Apr-85 05:47:21 EST Reply-To: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon) Organization: CAE Systems, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 15 Summary: as taught that vowels were "aeiou and sometimes y or w" - but nobody ever had a case where 'w' was used as a vowel. Now, some 35 years later, I know two of them. One is strictly archaic, but one is in everyday use in one scientific speciality. Please mail me your guesses, and I will post them in about three weeks (with a spoiler warning in the title, for those who would rather not be told). FROM: Brian G. Gordon, CAE Systems UUCP: {ihnp4, decvax!decwrl}!amd!cae780!gordon {nsc, resonex, qubix, hplabs, leadsv, teklds}!cae780!gordon USNAIL: 1333 Bordeaux Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089 AT&T: (408)745-1440 From the #1 SPEBSQSA Chorus in NorCal West - SAN JOSE!