Braingle: 'A-E-I-O-U' Brain Teaser

A-E-I-O-U

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Puzzle ID:	#27222
Fun:	(2.5)
Difficulty:	(3.02)
Category:	Trivia
Submitted By:	bigSWAFF_69_
Corrected By:	bigSWAFF_69_

What is the longest word in the English language that consists entirely of vowels (excluding Y)?

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Answer

Euouae - a medieval musical term (also referred to as "evovae")
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Comments

choptlivva Nov 29, 2005	What a GREAT word to know, when you've got nothing but vowels left in SCRABBLE!!!!!!
NTaliesen Nov 29, 2005	I knew I should have studied my medieval musical terms this morning.
Sunrose Nov 29, 2005	Clever And enjoyable. Nice job. Keep 'em coming
hidentreasure Nov 29, 2005	Good teaser.
renae Nov 29, 2005	Excellent! The weird thing is the man on the radio used it this morning. How spooky!
bigSWAFF_69_ Nov 29, 2005	Thanks
cdrock Nov 29, 2005	good teaser, but quite easy with the help of the internet
horse_luver Nov 29, 2005	The longest? I couldn't think of any! nice
bigSWAFF_69_ Nov 29, 2005	Belive me, I didn't know this, but a handy website called Wikipidea teaches you anything After reading your post, I actualy sat and tried to think of a word containing only vowels (besides the one in this teaser). It took me a second, before I just said "I"!
mrbrainyboy Nov 29, 2005	Hear, hear, choptliwa
cdrock Nov 29, 2005	Wikipedia has everything, even info on Braingle I wonder who wrote it
zonarita Nov 29, 2005	Thanks Swaff for the larger vocabulary. Interesting word. Enjoyed your teaser.
wolfmanh Nov 30, 2005	Great word, will have to look that one up. Liked this teaser a lot
sgtammo Dec 27, 2005	You got me on this one.
Unstumpable Dec 30, 2005	Awesome teaser, ive heard of it before though, im a musicain, i learned about it, but not much at all, basically what u said , though i didn't know you could just put questions on, i have a good teaser then, i guess you'll have to wait to see it!!
jlvsbeks Dec 31, 2005	cool word although i never could have guessed it
Kalliann Jan 05, 2006	I had to cheat on this one and look at the answer. I had no idea! Good stump!
zigthepig Jan 19, 2006	I salute anyone who got this right without help from the internet Stumped me of course Good job Swaffy!
waynelstephens Jan 30, 2006	Try using it in a sentence...
Winner4600 Jan 30, 2006	aw...dictionary.com doesn't have that word...
bigSWAFF_69_ Jan 30, 2006	Euouae is the longest word containing only vowels. Is that a good enough sentence?
schatzy228 Feb 09, 2006	hey hey hey what did you say? there were no consonants to get in the way? all i can say is give me a day to find the right words with which to repay GREAT TEASER!!!
misternee985 Dec 02, 2006	That's not a word. If it ain't in the dictionary... Not a word! It's defunct.
LeafFan4life Mar 13, 2007	aeiou and sometimes Y!!
tintiniscool Sep 03, 2007	It isn't a word....it is something to help medieval times music peeps to remember "seculorum Amen" AKA "s(E)c(U)l(O)r(U)m (A)m(E)n". The only place that says it is a word is not the Dictionary, but rather the Guiness Book of World Records.
Xpurrt Sep 06, 2007	Isn't this pure trivia?
bigSWAFF_69_ Sep 06, 2007	Oh yeah it is! . Luckily (?) it's pretty much "grandfathered" into the site, as its over a year old. Also, this was submitted well before the Trivia section was introduced.
4demo Dec 07, 2007	Great teaser! Anybody know how to pronounce it?
Lil_Dork May 16, 2009	huh?
isaihtb Nov 26, 2009	It has no I