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Old 11-20-2014, 10:00 PM
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Originally Posted by tedquick View Post
Here’s just a little aside and barely off topic since we are talking about language, its intent and spelling; every time I see the word “facetious”, it reminds me that there are only two words in the English language (that I‘m aware of) that have each of the vowels in the order in which they appear.


Does anybody know what the other word is?
Hopping that the prize;, for knowink the answer;, is an all you can eat Buffett.

Using the SWAG upproach to problum solving,
I will say ....ABSTEMIOUS.

Do you know any Villagers that culd be called abstemious ?

(SWAG = Sighintiffic Wild Azz Guess.)