What do these words have in common

[wolram]

cookie ,cosmic ,cues, moose

mummy, muse ,quick

squeaky, wages, yes

 

[frogman]

I, say, use, a, key



it is odd

 

[Moonbear]

All of them, or just the ones in each row?

 

[frogman]

all of them

 

[Kurdt]

The first lot all have the oo sound

The second all have a u in them

and the third all contain an e

 

[Poop-Loops]

The first lot all have the oo sound

Except for "cosmic".

 

[Kurdt]

Except for "cosmic".

Well you might pronounce it like that.

 

[frogman]

it is odd what they have in common

 

[makethings]

yes...odd..definitely not even.

 

[Danger]

They're all in English, they're all composed of letters, they are all on my monitor...

 

[Moonbear]

yes...odd..definitely not even.

Well, I've counted letters, consonants, vowels, syllables and positions of specific letters, and other than the letter 'i' always being in an odd position (but not in every word), I'm not seeing anything odd.

 

[Poop-Loops]

This thread sucks.It makes my brain hurt.

 

[Danger]

They're all unpronouncable to a Welshman...

 

[Cyrus]

I googled the answer. Its stupid.

 

[hypatia]

They're all unpronouncable to a Welshman...

 

[DaveC426913]

Moonbear's the warmest so far.

 

[Moonbear]

I hope my answer is adequately hidden (I think Greg changed the background color slightly from what it used to be). If it is hidden, highlight below if you want to see what I think the answer is.



They all have an odd numbered first letter.

 

[DaveC426913]

I hope my answer is adequately hidden (I think Greg changed the background color slightly from what it used to be). If it is hidden, highlight below if you want to see what I think the answer is.

Edit: Hold on, I'm having trouble with color tags.

Answer? What answer?
I was just reflecting on how warm you are. :!)

 

[Moonbear]

Answer? What answer?
I was just reflecting on how warm you are. :!)

LOL, must be the weather.

I don't know what the right color tag is but for some reason, the old way of entering it wasn't taking...I've never had to embed the color code in quotes before.

Edit: Aha, got the right code so I can hide my guess at the answer and not spoil it for others if I'm right.

 

[rewebster]

milk?

 

[wolram]

It took me 3hrs 7mins 9seconds to work it out.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

This is quackism for wackos.

 

[wolram]

This lazy dog jumped over the quick brown fox.

Can you think of a shorter one?

 

[wolram]

This lazy dog jumped over the quick brown fox.

Can you think of a shorter one?

Should be

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Can you think of a shorter one?

The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.
Waltz nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud.

 

[Astronuc]

This lazy dog jumped over the quick brown fox.

Can you think of a shorter one?

Thislazydogjumpedoverthequickbrownfox.

 

[rewebster]

I looked at those words again---one thing I see is that there are sequences of three words that have the same letter---but, if that's all that it is...

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

I looked at those words again---one thing I see is that there are sequences of three words that have the same letter---but, if that's all that it is...

Don't squawk amigo, it's a mosaic of wagsome cameos. It only has half of what it could have.

 

[rewebster]

squawk, squawk



---SQUAWK!

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

squawk, squawk



---SQUAWK!

You got it.