Vowels

Perhaps I am being slightly non-PC, but I occasionally assert that many people from Eastern European countries with badly transliterated names are suffering from a vowel deficiency.  The alleged ringleader of the recent terrorist attacks in Algeria, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, sports the nom de guerre "Laaouar," which means (they say) "The One-Eyed."  I have never seen a word or even a name with that many vowels in row.  A modest suggestion, offered with the hope that he won't be needing them much longer:  Why not donate them to the vowel-deprived of Poland and Serbia?

 

Is "sequoia" the only English word with all the vowels?

 

That's pretty much it for vowels.  Short blog today!

Follow-up 03 March 2013