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[MECKWELL]

If any of you out there have any interesting word puzzles, I'd be interested in hearing them.

I'll start by offering these:

1) What is the longest common English word that uses only one vowel and does not use the letter 'y'? Hint: It is nine letters long.


2) Name three adjectives that never precede the word they are modifying?

And a very, very easy one:

3) Name the five English words that are four letters long and end in UNT (not the C-word)?

[Dome Vans]

I've found that a good filler for five minutes at the end of the lesson is taken up with word puzzles and riddles.

One that is way too complicated for my students is:

How high would you have to count before you use the letter A in the english language spelling of a whole number?

[The_Eyeball_Kid]

[The_Eyeball_Kid]

[Dome Vans]

[Underwaterbob]

What is the longest one syllable word?

[SeoulShakin]

[The_Eyeball_Kid]

[Dome Vans]

[yingwenlaoshi]

"The one most commonly cited is screeched (nine letters). However, one ought to mention also scratched, scrounged, scrunched, stretched, and the plural nouns straights and strengths (all with nine letters).

The complete Oxford English Dictionary also indicates the existence of scraughed, scrinched, scritched, scrooched, sprainged, spreathed, throughed, and thrutched.

The OED also cites a single instance of the ten-letter word scraunched, from the 1620 English translation of Don Quixote."

What is the internet?

"Strengths" is the longest word that uses one vowel and doesn't end in "y"?

[The_Eyeball_Kid]

[Underwaterbob]

squirrelled = the longest one syllable word.

[Boodleheimer]

what are the two countries that begin with A but don't end in A (in the English language)?

--no 'cunning'--

[The_Eyeball_Kid]

[Dome Vans]