Beautiful VowelsEunoia is the shortest word in English containing all five vowels
- and it means "beautiful thinking".
It is also the title of Canadian
poet Christian Bok's book of fiction in which each chapter uses only
one vowel.
Mr Bok believes his book proves that each vowel has its own
personality, and demonstrates the flexibility
of the English language.
Below are extracts from each chapter.
From The Economist print edition Oct 30th 2008
The presidential election
It's time America should take a chance and make Barack Obama the next leader of the free world
Obama in the lead around the worldGLOBAL ELECTORAL COLLEGE
Obama tax calculator claims to figure out how much you will save
Sen. Barack Obama's campaign introduced an online tax calculator that shows
how much you'll save under Obama's tax plan versus Sen. John McCain's tax plan.
1) annual income (within a range),
2) file
jointly or single,
3) dependents
4) owe
on a mortgage if you don't itemize
Try it out here.