Sandy Wood
Brain Game: Sometimes Why?
by Sandy Wood - March 10, 2010 - 7:30 AM

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There should be enough answers for today’s Brain Game to go around, so get creative. Enjoy!

Comment with a word, term, or phrase -
using 10 or fewer letters in all – that contains
all five main vowels (A, E, I, O, and U).

EXAMPLES:

U.S. AIR FORCE
PERSUASION
OPERA MUSIC

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Comments (46)
  1. Facetious(ly) oops… 11…but in order…

  2. dialogue

  3. Sequoia

    Ultraviolet….though it has 11 letters

  4. supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, oh wait…34!

  5. As a second to Chris, abstemiously – ALSO in order with no other vowels in between.

  6. Super Mario

  7. Don’t all the examples have 10 letters, not “fewer than 10 letters total”?

  8. sequoia (7 letters!)

  9. I eat soup!

  10. Darn, Marcus beat me to it….

    euphoria (8 letters!)

  11. You are in. (8 total, even has the sometimes Y).

  12. Curios are

  13. O’ beautiful

  14. Bivouacked

  15. A true foil

  16. Lousy idea

  17. autopsies

  18. A Bedouin.

    Miaoued.

    I, Touareg.

    Online music could be described as “e-audio”.

    Previously in a comment on this site I referred to Christian Bok’s poetry book Eunoia, in which he plays all kinds of fun games with vowels.

  19. About time.

  20. automotive

  21. europhilia

  22. Jailhouse

  23. EUNOIA. means alertness of mind and will

  24. Iouea. Is a genus of Cretaceous fossil sponges

  25. beautious

  26. equation – 8 letters! Can’t beat Sequoia, though.

  27. You’re right, Brad; I intended to say “10 letters or fewer” and will fix that now. Thanks for the heads up!

  28. audio tape

  29. tenacious…….which is what one must be to play these games…….

  30. Tambourine

  31. Education

  32. piano duet (9)

  33. evacuation

  34. Eulogia

  35. Shortest I could find that also had a Y is buoyancies.

  36. No beat Quiz

  37. facetious (in order too!)

  38. you are king

  39. Sequin Oats

    The sparkly way to start your day!
    (OK, I just made that up)

  40. eating soup

  41. A-One Genius

  42. The Utopia

  43. Cointreau

  44. Rue a doily.

    Because at some time, we all do.

  45. I always used ‘dialogue’ for this one, but I love Zack’s Super Mario! Heck yeah!

  46. About time!

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