asked what plural word in English has none of the letters of its singular, which itself is a

commonly used word. Warning: Click & Clack said that the sought plural is, perhaps,

archaic. Also, one of the two words here has few letters.

that is an excellent lesson. In a tangential topic, I read somewhere that Spanish, as spoken in

Spain has 34 phonems while English, as spoken in the USA, has 44. Can you tell us something

about this?

‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to

left.
There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous.” Tremendous,

horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
There are two words in the English language that have

all five vowels in order. Abstemious and facetious.
“Typewriter” is the longest word that

can be made by using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

I have a lesson on Spanish ordinals and fractions here:

http://www.elearnspanishlanguage.com/vocabulary/ordinalnumbers.html

Here’s one: http://www.m-w.com/

Not quite on the

subject, but is there an English dictionary (on line) that shows examples of how to use the

word in a sentence?

Many thanks, Maria

meaning “yes man” which has the greatest number of vowels in a row – seven.

Don

out that in Spanish there is sometimes confussion between words indicating order and those

indicating fraction due in part to the fact that they sometimes coincide: “el octavo” means

“the eigth” while “un octavo” means “one eight”.

some German ‘monster’ words like
“Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän” = Danube

steamship company captain, or even

longer:
“Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz”
(63 letters)

= “beef labeling regulation & delegation of supervision law.”
This was a 1999 German

Word of the Year, and it also won a special award as the longest German word for that year.

Obviously, there are lots of vowels to hold the consonants together.

I liked

your examples too! I speak French as well and was never aware that in “jouaient” five vowels

were grouped together!