Eunoia is a work by
poetChristian Bök consisting of five chapters, each one using only one vowel.
In the science-fiction television series Earth: Final Conflict, Eunoia is the name of the native language of the Taelon race. Christian Bök was a consultant on that series and helped develop the language.
In December 2015, the Ministry of Education in Singapore unveiled the name of a new junior College set to open in 2017,
Eunoia Junior College. The unfamiliar name generated significant buzz in the Singapore community when it was first announced,[7] including memes referencing
Singlishhomophones.[8]
Iouea, a similarly short word with all the vowels.
References
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ab"Beautiful vowels". Today (BBC Radio 4).
BBC. 30 October 2008. Eunoia is the shortest word in English containing all five vowels - and it means "beautiful thought". It is also the title of Canadian poet Christian Bok's book of fiction in which each chapter uses only one vowel.
^Gloria Vivenza, "Classical Roots of Benevolence in Economic Thought," Ancient Economic Thought (Routledge, 1997) pp. 198–199, 204–208
online; Cicero's influence on
patristic usage, Carolinne White, Christian Friendship in the Fourth Century (Cambridge University Press, 1992, 2002), pp. 16–17
online, 32, and p. 255, note 13.