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From: stevemac@bud.indirect.com (Pascal MacProgrammer)
Subject: Question: Vowelless word
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Not so very long ago, miga0003@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Larisa Migachyov) said...
> I believe that a truly vowelless word is "nth", as in "x to the nth 
>power".  That is, unless we consider n a vowel, which I wouldn't do.

  Or unless you confuse vowels with letters, as many people do.  The only 
way I've ever heard the word "nth" pronounced is as the name of the 
letter "N", followed by an unvoiced "th" sound:  "enth".
  This is not the same as a truly avocalic word, such as one of the 
Russian prepositions "C" (pronounced "sssss") or "B" (pronounced 
"vvvvv").

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