My new favourite word. No consonants. A dionysian/bacchic vowel howl!
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/euoi
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Voco-Phronēsis - The Vocalities Course Blog (part of The Aural and Visual Cultures Department, Goldsmiths, London)
Talking of bacchic revelries, did you get my email?
ReplyDeleteHi SS, sorry, I don't check that account (the blog email address) every day, just looking now and will email you back. Cheers
ReplyDeleteP.S. Just ripped 9k words on vowels, euoi, and intrauterine resonance, I'll post it once it's marked.
I'm assuming you know about this http://archives.chbooks.com/online_books/eunoia/text.html
ReplyDeletenah, I didn't know about that! Reminds me of Perecs palindrome book a little....
ReplyDeleteIt does have an ugly aberration of the respiro-phonic vowels in the middle, the 'n' - a horridly dental mutilation of the sonorous ghosts