Words with all five vowels in order

[nq:1]Someone once told me that "facetious" was one of two words in the English language with all five vowels in order. Is this true? I wonder if anyone can suggest the other?[/nq]
abstemious?

[nq:2]Someone once told me that "facetious" was one of two ... this true? I wonder if anyone can suggest the other?[/nq]
[nq:1]abstemious(ly) facetious(ly) I include the 'ly' for the "and sometimes 'y'" crowd.[/nq]
The codicil I heard was never "and sometimes 'y'", but always "and sometimes 'y' and 'w'". In England, do they teach "and sometimes 'y'" with no 'w'?

[nq:2]The codicil I heard was never "and sometimes 'y'", but ... England, do they teach "and sometimes 'y'" with no 'w'?[/nq]
[nq:1]In the US, I was never taught in (Catholic) school about 'w' being a vowel. Only later, and from non-teachers, did I hear about "cwm" et cetera.[/nq]
I don't think the 'w' codicil is talking about Welsh loanwords. I think it's referring to words like "bow".

[nq:1]Someone once told me that "facetious" was one of two words in the English language with all five vowels in order. Is this true? I wonder if anyone can suggest the other?[/nq]
Why not make it an adverb and get extra points for the part-time vowel? -- Michael West Melbourne, Australia (In the shadow of the You-Yangs)

[nq:1]Someone once told me that "facetious" was one of two words in the English language with all five vowels in order. Is this true? I wonder if anyone can suggest the other?[/nq]
abstemious(ly)

facetious(ly)

I include the 'ly' for the "and sometimes 'y'" crowd.

-- Jack Gavin

[nq:2] abstemious(ly) facetious(ly) I include the 'ly' for the "and sometimes 'y'" crowd.[/nq]
[nq:1]The codicil I heard was never "and sometimes 'y'", but always "and sometimes 'y' and 'w'". In England, do they teach "and sometimes 'y'" with no 'w'?[/nq]
In the US, I was never taught in (Catholic) school about 'w' being a vowel. Only later, and from non-teachers, did I hear about "cwm" e

[nq:1]So for me, it was: "A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y".[/nq]

Likewise for me, in a Canadian public ... in English, although in some phonetic classification systems it's called a "semivowel", along with L and R (and consonantal Y).
-- Odysseus

[nq:2]So for me, it was: "A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y".[/nq]
[nq:1]Likewise for me, in a Canadian public school (= UK grammar school, more or less). I've never heard W called a vowel in English, although in some phonetic classification systems it's called a "semivowel", along with L and R (and consonantal Y).[/nq]
I learned (US, maybe public high school, maybe Catholic elementary schoo

[nq:2]Someone once told me that "facetious" was one of two ... this true? I wonder if anyone can suggest the other?[/nq]
[nq:1]Why not make it an adverb and get extra points for the part-time vowel?[/nq]
Thanks Michael

I'm not sure about the status of "y" -- I guess words like "try","sky","fly" and even "why" suggest that it must be, assuming that all non-scientific words must co

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[nq:2]I don't think the 'w' codicil is talking about Welsh loanwords. I think it's referring to words like "bow".[/nq]
[nq:1]I'm not sure how that qualifies as a vowel, any more than the second "h" in "shah" does.[/nq]
The second "h" in "shah" is just silent; it's pronounced exactly the same as "sha". But actually "h" *is* a vowel in English (specificall