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All the vowels in the correct order

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tomr | 00:30 Mon 23rd Dec 2002 | Phrases & Sayings
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I seem to recall that there are three words in the English language containing all of the vowels in their correct order. Abstemious and facecious are two, does anyone know the third? This isn't a riddle btw.
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Caesious.
Yes tomr, I too remember that there are three. Abstemious and facetious (check spelling, if this was in a quiz you could lose points!!!) were the two I remember but I'm not too sure about "Caesious" although it does seem feasible (if not in the dictionary I consulted). I
Click http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words6.html and scroll down to Paragraph 4 for a stack of them, including the three already offered. Granted, most of them you are unlikely to come across on a daily basis, but they do exist. (As a matter of interest, 'subcontinental' has them all in sequence, except in reverse order.)
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Thanks folks.

I should have spotted my poor spelling but it was around midnight. Quizzmonster gets three stars for his link - it makes fascinating reading.

Abstemious Abstentious Arsenious Caesious Facetious Fracedinous Answer courtesy of Schott's Original Miscellany

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