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cwtch (a hiding place or cubby hole) is also from Welsh (albeit a recent word influenced by English, and used almost exclusively in the variant of English spoken in Wales, not in standard English), and crwth and cwtch are the longest English dictionary words without a, e, i, o, u, y according to Collins Dictionary. [9]
For words to appear here, they must appear in their own entry in a dictionary; words that occur only as part of a longer phrase are not included. Proper nouns are not included in the list. There are, in addition, many place names and personal names, mostly originating from Arabic-speaking countries, Albania, or China, that have a Q without a U.
The article is titled "Words without vowels". Discussion of words that actually don't have vowels (like tsktsks and nth) should come before words that have unusual vowels such as Y and W. Y and W are vowels when used as a vowel. See the Y article (or any dictionary...). A word such as rhythm is not truly a word without a vowel (though it is ...
Usually foreignisms or new coinages, words with -qu- where the -u- is a full vowel are more akin to most words in this list than to the "ordinary" English words containing -qu-. Another recurring point is that many of the words listed are realia of the respective cultures and thus not truly English words.
And since many of these words derive from Arabic, which has no set system of transliteration, you could actually have many different spellings of the same word.Support Rt66lt 17:11, 30 December 2005 (UTC) I don't completely understand this. Clearly tsaddiq and tzaddiq are not the same word, although they refer to the same thing. It is necessary ...
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This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages). Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words.