>>2) What common eight-letter word has only one vowel?
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>strength
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>Tamar
Yes, that's it. Len pointed out that the plural would even have 9 letters (with 1 vowel).
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)