In a message dated 6/9/00 11:03:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
dougnad@bellatlantic.net writes:
>
> Running
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> grep "a.*e.*i.*o.*u" /usr/dict/words
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> gives:
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> adventitous {one more "i" needed}
> facetious
> sacrilegous (one more "i" needed also)
>
> The last one may or may not fit your requirements...
>
> Doug Braun
Hi Doug,
No extra points! You abstemiously forgot about the second "i" in
adventitious. Sacrilegious doesn't count-they are not in order, unless you
spell it sacreligious (still one too many "i") which is why they spell
religion like it is instead of "rilegion".
Bill
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