{"id":544,"date":"2012-02-13T23:54:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T04:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=544"},"modified":"2012-02-13T23:54:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T04:54:16","slug":"words-with-four-vowels-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/544\/words-with-four-vowels-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Words with Four vowels in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/achinhibitor.livejournal.com\/148188.html\">his LiveJournal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;maeiusophilia&#8221;<br \/>There aren&#8217;t many English words with four vowels in a row.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, geek that I am, I thought &#8216;hm, that sounds like a challenge.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Using egrep and \/usr\/share\/dict\/words, I came up with the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn my \/usr\/share\/dict\/words, it looks like:<br \/>\n4: 159<br \/>\n5: 3 (cadiueio, Chaouia, Guauaenok)<br \/>\n6: 1 (euouae)<\/p>\n<p>Excluding proper nouns (or at least, things capitalized in the first letter), we get 110, 1, 1. Of the four-vowel words, 7 have only 5 letters; another 6 have only 6 letters.<\/p>\n<p>An arbitrary selection of 4-vowel words: homoeoarchy, obsequiousness, palaeoencephalon, queue, lieue, rhythmopoeia, exsanguious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Normally, I&#8217;d have done a random selection instead of an arbitrary selection, but `sort` on OS X doesn&#8217;t have the -R option, sadly, and I didn&#8217;t happen to have an ssh connection to elsewhere open at that particular second.)<\/p>\n<p>This feels like the kind of question I&#8217;d love to use as a job interview question someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine posted on his LiveJournal: &#8220;maeiusophilia&#8221;There aren&#8217;t many English words with four vowels in a row. Of course, geek that I am, I thought &#8216;hm, that sounds like a challenge.&#8217; Using egrep and \/usr\/share\/dict\/words, I came up with the following: In my \/usr\/share\/dict\/words, it looks like: 4: 159 5: 3 (cadiueio, Chaouia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}