Saturday 21 April 2012

Euoi

My new favourite word. No consonants. A dionysian/bacchic vowel howl!

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/euoi

4 comments:

  1. Talking of bacchic revelries, did you get my email?

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  2. Hi SS, sorry, I don't check that account (the blog email address) every day, just looking now and will email you back. Cheers

    P.S. Just ripped 9k words on vowels, euoi, and intrauterine resonance, I'll post it once it's marked.

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  3. I'm assuming you know about this http://archives.chbooks.com/online_books/eunoia/text.html

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  4. nah, I didn't know about that! Reminds me of Perecs palindrome book a little....

    It does have an ugly aberration of the respiro-phonic vowels in the middle, the 'n' - a horridly dental mutilation of the sonorous ghosts

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