As you know, the vowels a,e,i,o and u, appear in the correct order in the words abstemious and facetious.

From each example below, can you find just one word, which features only five vowels in the order stated?

a i e o u
a i o u e
a u i o e
e a i o u
e u a i o
i o u a e
o e a u i
o u e a i
u e i o a
u e o a i

Obviously, there is no unique solution to this problem.

This problem was posted at Puzzleteasers by Doctor Jawahar Surti, who has very kindly given me his permission to reproduce it here.

(In reply to Solution by Penny)

That's great, Penny! One of our members commented, in the queue, that he would wait to see your solution! :)

Josie

Posted by Josie Faulkner on 2007-07-18 04:31:37