Comments on: Paleooology

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:54:20 +0000

The word queueing also has five vowels in a row. It can also be spelled queuing, but that’s not so much fun!

By: Bill Hatfield

Bill Hatfield — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:45:36 +0000

Didn’t find this one in Dictionary.com, but there is another with 3 o’s: Paleozooogy, the science of extinct animals, a branch of paleontology.

HOWEVER, here’s an interesting link indicating that Paleooology (or one of its cognates) may be nominated for addition into the Oxford Dictionary. (They say the purist would insist on a hyphen separating the third o from the other two… )

http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Palaeoology/message/164

By: Gaivs Flavivs

Gaivs Flavivs — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:24:43 +0000

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Paleology

you better count them again =)

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:40:56 +0000

I’m afraid that I think you’ve got two words mixed up: paleozoology (study of fossils) and paleology (study of antiquities).

By: eli

eli — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:15:10 +0000

i stumble upon this blog.. nice one.. just like my morenewwords.com blog.. but since english is not my language, what i put there are plain stupid simple to the english speakers.

Paleooogy is for eggs huh.. well that’s all 0 0 0 0 eggs..

By: David Cheal

David Cheal — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:14:13 +0000

If you spell it palaeooology then it must be one of the few (only?) English words with 5 vowels in a row!