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From: stevemac@bud.indirect.com (Pascal MacProgrammer)
Subject: Question: Vowelless word
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Not so very long ago, lucas@watson.ibm.com (Bruce Lucas) said...

>>In article <3k7n65$9a4@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>,
  Ned Flanders <peabody@wam.umd.edu> wrote:
>>>The only English word that I can think of as "avocalic" is "rhythm."

   Well, sure, if you say that Y is a consonant, and not a vowel.  And 
then "by", "my", "sky", "fly", "try", "fry" and many others are avocalic 
as well.
   Or better yet, if we all say that A, E, I, O, and U are all 
consonants, and not vowels, then =no= word has any vowels.

   In fact, though, not even "cwm" and "crwth" are vowelless.

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