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>1) What word has five vowels in a row?
Queueing. This should be fairly common for people who work with computers...
>2) What common eight-letter word has only one vowel?
Strength. The plural even has nine letters...
>3) I also read, yesterday, about a word that has 5 consonants in a row, and another one that even has 6 consonants in a row - but I can't remember them right now!
One such word is "witchcraft".
I understand that in Russian, there are words that
start with four consonant sounds in a row (the combination is fstr).
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)
