AEIOU Time Three Delicacies

Authors

Darryl Francis

Abstract

While browsing through some back issues of Word Ways, I noticed in the November 2000 Kickshaws that Dave Morice and Eric Chaikin presented a number of "double pair supervocalics", words and terms which use exactly two each of the vowels AEIOU. At the end of the Kickshaws item, they wondered "dare we dream of a decadent feast of AEIOU-times-three-delicacies?", and offered a pair of number name examples: FOUR MILLION SIX HUNDRED AND TEN THOUSAND AND TEN and QUATTUORDECILLION FIVE THOUSAND AND TEN. However, both of these are inconsistent in their use of the word AND.

Recommended Citation

Francis, Darryl (2013) "AEIOU Time Three Delicacies," Word Ways: Vol. 46 : Iss. 4 , Article 11.
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol46/iss4/11