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Brain Game: The Swimsuit Edition
by Sandy - August 20, 2008 - 6:30 AM

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For today’s Brain Game, we’ll define vowels as A, E, I, O and U. All other letters are considered consonants. Given that:

Name a fairly common two-word English term
in which both words contain 3 consecutive vowels.

HERE’S our answer.

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Comments (17)

  1. Luscious?

    posted by Will on 8-20-2008 at 7:25 am

  2. perhaps a bit cheap but…ooey gooey?

    posted by Jane on 8-20-2008 at 8:20 am

  3. Anything that ends in ious… Also “queer”.

    posted by Robert N. on 8-20-2008 at 8:24 am

  4. boo hoo

    posted by sbs on 8-20-2008 at 10:06 am

  5. C’mon people, read the rules again. Sandy is looking for a *two-word* phrase (not a single word) where each word has *three* (not two) consecutive vowels.
    “ooey gooey” fits the rules, but it’s really made-up words.

    posted by Fredly on 8-20-2008 at 11:30 am

  6. People are not reading the question correctly. Read it again. Slowly.
    Note the “two words” and “both of which have three vowels” part. Jane’s answer is the only additional one that fits.

    For wine afficianados “Beaujolais nouveau” also works, but its a proper noun, so not sure it would count (though it is in my latest Merriam Webster).

    posted by Simon on 8-20-2008 at 11:48 am

  7. Just a reminder of the parameters being a TWO-word phrase with THREE consecutive vowels in each word…

    posted by JD on 8-20-2008 at 11:50 am

  8. I was reading the instructions to be harder than that. I thought they meant “consecutive” as in in the same order as “a,e,i,o,u” — three vowels together that were ALSO e before i, i before o, etc.

    Either way, any word ending is –ious fits, such as delicious, nutritious, expeditious, vicious, suspicious…

    posted by Southern Buddhist on 8-20-2008 at 1:44 pm

  9. Before I got carried away, I was going to offer “delicious, nutritious,” as a two-word phrase, since it’s reasonably common in food commercials.

    “deliciously gooey?” “ooey” is pretty made-up, but gooey is certainly in the dictionary. But for sheer class as well as best use of many, many vowels, beaujolais nouveau is the winner.

    posted by Southern Buddhist on 8-20-2008 at 1:49 pm

  10. I disagree. That’s neither english nor common.

    posted by Miss V on 8-20-2008 at 4:18 pm

  11. I misread the instructions at first, too, and was trying to think of a two-word phrase, each word composed of ONLY three vowels. I came up with “Oui, oui”, but seeing as that is not English, I gave up. Ah, well!

    posted by Erin S. on 8-20-2008 at 4:18 pm

  12. I misread the instructions at first, too, and was trying to think of a two-word phrase, each word composed of ONLY three vowels. I came up with “Oui, oui”, but seeing as that is not English, I gave up. Ah, well! C’est la vie!

    posted by Erin S. on 8-20-2008 at 4:19 pm

  13. louis louis

    posted by scott on 8-20-2008 at 4:22 pm

  14. How about one word that has three vowels consecutively… twice?

    Beauteous

    posted by PointSpecial on 8-20-2008 at 4:46 pm

  15. Man, I totally thought of “beautiful” and, later, “queen”, but I never put them together. Weak.

    posted by Coaster on 8-21-2008 at 1:49 am

  16. Sometimes hear

    pious beauty

    posted by Rob on 8-21-2008 at 11:36 am

  17. Oh oh!

    Beauty Queen

    posted by Rob on 8-21-2008 at 12:18 pm

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