Vowels

[Dark Ronin]

Yesterday I was told that all words have vowels. My reaction was “No they don’t that’s just stupid”, but after spending over an hour trying to come up with a word I’ve almost given up hope. I thought the people here might have some ideas. It looks like nearly every word has a vowel. Most words have vowels for either the first or second letter, sometimes the third if it’s after an “r”. This might be common sense and I just hadn’t heard of it, but it surprises me. I did come up with a few words like hymn, rhythm, and myth, but then I was told that they have a “y” and the vowels are “a”, “e”, “I”, “o”, “u”, and sometimes “y”. But I don’t really get the whole sometimes “y” thing. Anyway I would really appreciate any help on this. My pride is at stake. Not to mention 40 bucks.

[bender5]

Re: Vowels

You are utterly retarded

[Sprite-]

Re: Vowels

All words have vowels. End of story. You just lost 40 bucks lol.

[Tix]

Re: Vowels

The only "words" without vowels that I can think of are onomatopoeic words, such as "grr".

[bobbycat73]

Re: Vowels

how about crwth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crwth

[Windscarredfaith]

Re: Vowels

Same with pwn (Yes, that's a real word now.)

[Sprite-]

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loophole! it's not english, but he never said it had to be english

[bender5]

Re: Vowels

That is a Welsh word. So technically he could win the 40 bucks with a loophole. But I want to see a word in the English language that has no vowels

EDIT: ninja'd

[Sprite-]

Re: Vowels

There are no words in the English language without a vowel.

[Squeek]

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Not Critical Thinking material. Moved.

[sc979]

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'w00t' somehow became the word of the year for 2007, but it's not a word.

edit: since when did 'pwn' become a real word?

[debit13]

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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cwm

How's about this one? I thought it was fake when my friend told me it, but it turns out that it isn't.

[devonin]

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Further with respect to Welsh, just because it uses the same alphabet doesn't even remotely make it the same language. The syntax and grammar are completely different, just the letters look the same, they aren't even pronounced like in english.

[devonin]

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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cwm

How's about this one? I thought it was fake when my friend told me it, but it turns out that it isn't.

Welsh: valley

[bender5]

Re: Vowels

Osnap devonin double posted