Now there's a coincidence !

[Chris Jeggo]

Jimlews - I am always enormously impressed by anyone who can spell facetious. Jolly well done!

I was told at school that facetious is one of only two English words that contain all five vowels in the right order.

[Jdsk]

Jimlews - I am always enormously impressed by anyone who can spell facetious. Jolly well done!

I was told at school that facetious is one of only two English words that contain all five vowels in the right order.

There's more than two... and that's not counting the adverbial forms of the relevant adjectives. Or debating how many vowel characters there are in English!

Jonathan

[Chris Jeggo]

Jimlews - I am always enormously impressed by anyone who can spell facetious. Jolly well done!

I was told at school that facetious is one of only two English words that contain all five vowels in the right order.

There's more than two... and that's not counting the adverbial forms of the relevant adjectives. Or debating how many vowel characters there are in English!

Jonathan

Hmm! There are quite a few, although some of those in the Wiktionary list are completely new to me. Others in that list I could have been expected to know at primary school. Perhaps my teacher wanted us to learn that being facetious in class was bad, and that abstemious is good!