On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Richard Congdon wrote: #> > 12) Decafalon (n.): #> #> Isn't that changing three letters rather than one? #> # #Well, if you stretch it a bit, you could think of the f as being a phi that #replaced a theta. It is a greek word, after all. :) Yeah, but the second alpha's still an insertion. You have to start with decathlon ~~~ Any way you slice it, there's no vowel between the theta and the lambda in Greek or in written (and many people's spoken) English. -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel