What's your best guess? (1 Viewer)

KC Foggin

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• Apr 5, 2004

• #1

What is unique about the following group of letters:
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aehiklmnopuw?
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gthang

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• Apr 5, 2004

• #2

they're all in order?

 

KC Foggin

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• Apr 5, 2004

• #3

Good morning gthang! Yes they are all in order but that is not the answer. A hint to follow in a bit.

 

gthang

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• Apr 5, 2004

• #4

Good morning to you too!

i don't think there's a bird in them thar letters...

 

KC Foggin

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• Apr 5, 2004

• #5

No, no bird. Just a fun quiz.

Okay hint. It is an entire alphabet somewhere.

 

birdman

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• Apr 5, 2004

• #6

Ahhh... it's the Hawai'ian alphabet!!!

Kia Ora!!!

:t: :t: :t:

 

birdman

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• Apr 5, 2004

• #7

Oh... except there's no "r".

Hmmm... I'll get down from the podium and have a rethink!

:-C

 

V

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• Apr 5, 2004

• #8

birdman said:

Oh... except there's no "r".

Hmmm... I'll get down from the podium and have a rethink!

:-C

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Innit? Is kia ora also hawaiian?

 

birdman

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• Apr 5, 2004

• #9

Karwin said:

Is kia ora also hawaiian?

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Nope... got that wrong... it's Maori... D'oh!

So, I'll reinstate my Hawai'ian Alphabet answer, and hope I don't look even more stupid!!!

 

V

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• Apr 5, 2004

• #10

birdman said:

Nope... got that wrong... it's Maori... D'oh!

So, I'll reinstate my Hawai'ian Alphabet answer, and hope I don't look even more stupid!!!

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You look like a tern to me

 

robinm

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• Apr 5, 2004

• #11

birdman said:

So, I'll reinstate my Hawai'ian Alphabet answer, and hope I don't look even more stupid!!!

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I agree with your Hawai'ian answer. So if you're wrong you have company.

 

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AnnieW

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• Apr 5, 2004

• #12

birdman said:

Nope... got that wrong... it's Maori... D'oh!

So, I'll reinstate my Hawai'ian Alphabet answer, and hope I don't look even more stupid!!!

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I believe you are right with tha above. Hawai'ian uses the second shortest alphabet in the world - 12 letters plus ' The apostrophe acts as a glottal stop (Hawaii, should, I believe be written as Hawai'i)

Pinching Karen's quiz ... if Hawai'ian is the 2nd shortest alphabet, what is the shortest and what is it ???? I'll give you a clue, it has 11 letters ......

 

V

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• Apr 5, 2004

• #13

Solomon Islands' alphabet.

 

gthang

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• Apr 5, 2004

• #14

the shortest alphabet is my vocabulary...lol!

hmmm, must be a tribe from Africa... still primitive... just a guess.

 

Charles Harper

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• Apr 5, 2004

• #15

Something clicks about your answer, GT...

 

gthang

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• Apr 5, 2004

• #16

The only thing that clicked about my answer was the mouse...

 

KC Foggin

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• Apr 5, 2004

• #17

birdman said:

Ahhh... it's the Hawai'ian alphabet!!!

Kia Ora!!!

:t: :t: :t:

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Excellent Dave. You win this one. :t:

 

birdman

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• Apr 5, 2004

• #18

Charles Harper said:

Something clicks about your answer, GT...

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Oh... very droll...

:t:

 

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AnnieW

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• Apr 5, 2004

• #19

Well Karwin is close but not precise enough ....

(I believe the official language of the Solomon Islands is English although it is only spoken by a small percentage of inhabitants and Pijin is the `lingua franca')