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12 Four Play

But there’s, perhaps sadly, more to life than Bacchic frenzy. There are quite a few fours with three vowels – in fact, every consonant except F and Y is part of at least one three-vowel four. Here is one for every possible combination of three different vowels:

AEI gives IDEA

AEO gives ODEA

AEU gives BEAU

AIO gives IOTA

AIU gives AITU

AOU gives AUTO

EIO gives ONIE

EIU gives LIEU

EOU gives ROUE

IOU – none – except that cry of Bacchic frenzy EUOI

Again, you can see there are a few familiar ones mixed in with some exotica. ODEA, for instance, were Greek or Roman buildings for entertainment, the plural of odeum or the more familiar odeon. An AITU is a half-human, half-divine being, like some of the incredibly good players I try to beat on the tournament Scrabble circuit. A ROUE is a man given to immoral living (some of them on the circuit too), while, more prosaically, ONIE is a Scots version of any.