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Re: word funnies-was ebay funnies-no LBC content--sorry

To: dougnad@bellatlantic.net, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: word funnies-was ebay funnies-no LBC content--sorry
From: SJagGo@aol.com
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 14:37:51 EDT
In a message dated 6/9/00 11:03:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
dougnad@bellatlantic.net writes:

> 
>  Running 
>  
>           grep "a.*e.*i.*o.*u" /usr/dict/words
>  
>  gives:
>  
>  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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