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Don't forget to adjust your clocks!!
Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:51:41 +0100
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Mavis Barne...
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Remember, they go forward one hour tonight.
Tickettyboo...
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oh its Mavis, regular as clockwork. LOL
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Gareth...
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Mine go *BACK* one hour!
Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...
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I remember it by the american way:
Spring forward
Fall back
Troy's Human...
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Why is that american ?
Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...
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Well I still call it Autumn. :)
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Aries...
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because we don't call Autumn, Fall - gettit ;)
Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...
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Now I thought TH was being facetious. I never dreamt that he didn't realise
that Spring and Fall were seasons on the other side of the pond. :)
Aries...
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I'm sure he was being facetious but I couldn't resist replying anyway ;)
Gareth...
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I didn't reply because I couldn't spell facetious. :-)
Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...
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Glad I was able to help with your spelling inadequacies then. LOL
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pmj...
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LOL!
:-)
It's actually one of the (very few) words [*1] in the English
Language that has all of the Vowels in it, in order! - So that's
one way to remember how to spell it.
[*1]
OK...
I'm sure someone can remind me/us what the other word(s) like
that are?
Gareth...
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Are you ready?
pmj...
abstemious
abstentious
adventitious
pmj...
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OK, yes, but that *also* has an additional letter "i" in it. [*1]
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aeriferous
aerophilous
amentiferous
anemophilous
arenicolous
pmj...
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& all of those also contain an additional Vowel.
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arsenious
pmj...
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What does that mean then?
Ali...
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containing arsenic of valency 3 (in chemical names)
chemicals containing arsenic of valency 5 use the word arsenic.
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arteriovenous
autoecious
pmj...
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& those both contain more than one of the Vowels repeated.
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sacrilegious :o))
pmj...
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& that also has an additioanl one in it.
[*1]
I realise that I didn't say anything about them not containing more
than one occurrence of each of the vowels.
:-)
BTW - How did you come up with those?
Did you just "happen to know" them?
Or do you have a List of stuff like that?
:-)
Gareth...
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I just typed *a*e*i*o*u* into WordWeb Pro, although you can do
similar using OneLook online dictionary.
see here
and here's WordWeb
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JoeH...
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OK then here you go.
At least five English words contain the five major vowels in order:
abstemious, abstentious, adventitious, facetious, and parecious.
pmj...
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LOL!
Thankyou!
:-)
But notice, that of those, only 4 contain each of the Vowels in order
& also only once...
("adventitious" contains the letter "i" twice)
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At least six contain the five vowels in *reverse* order: duoliteral,
quodliteral, subcontinental, uncomplimentary, unoriental, and unnoticeably.
pmj...
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LOL!
:-)
Interesting! (well, that's if you're interested in that sort of thing!)
:-)
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Aries...
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Wise man ;)
Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...
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But he knows now - must have a good teacher. :)
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Troy's Human...
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OK we don't call it Fall anymore - but we did hundreds of years ago. The
Americans got it from us !
So there - it's not American :-) It's all ours :-)
Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...
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So did we make a retrograde step then?
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Gareth...
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I don't bother remembering... ther's always enough people around to
remind me what has to be done. :-)))
Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...
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Not 'ere there ain't and Gizmo at 14 refuses point blank to learn any new
tricks, now he's got me thoroughly domesticated. :(
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Phil Kyle...
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My clock runs on electricity, so I just leave it.
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Rabbit...
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Oh I'm moving mine back. The last time I moved the clock forward it fell off
the mantelpiece :-)
noreen...
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