Puzzle

[jeal2]

To calculate the McSomebody vowel-to-consonant ratio for a word:

1. Count the number of vowels (v).
2. Count the number of consonants (c).
3. If v/c<1, it's not defined.
4. If v/c>1, the McSomebody something is (v/c)*total no. letters.

So for example, "area" gives you 12.

JP (bellringing PGCE-er) says one of his year 9s got 20. Any ideas?

Comments

A challenge!

[nybiara]

Hmm. I can't get higher than 17.5 (aureola) and it's annoying me.

Do you not remember what the Somebody in McSomebody is, or is this to make it harder by removing the option of Googling? :P

Re: A challenge!

[jeal2]

Yer, 17.5 was the best anyone at bellringing could do (can't remember what any of the words were though :S). I'm afraid I can't remember the Somebody either - and I'm not sure whether it's a recognised term or a name coined by a maths teacher somewhere in the mists of time...

[cartesiandaemon]

OK, I'll just delete the bit where I had the fraction upside-down, then.

20 suggests to me a five letter word with four vowels/one consonant. Probably "(v)(c)eau" or "(v)(v)(c)(v)(v)" :)

(The other possible factors of twenty would have fractional vowels or more vowels that letters -- does Æsop have three vowels, two consonants, and four letters? :))

Let me think.

[cartesiandaemon]

Has "oiseau" been loan-word'ed from French yet? That scores 30.

[cartesiandaemon]

I assume google would solve this quickly, but that would be cheating. If not I'll try that in a bit.

[cartesiandaemon]

Eunoia = 30.
Rousseauian = = 19.25
Ouagadougou = 291/3

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McSomebody

[anonymous]

The McSomebody is Mr G J McCoyd.

Pleased to see it on the net.

Re: McSomebody

[jeal2]

Thank you!

And if you happen to be Mr G J McCoyd, thank you even more. I'm sorry for forgetting your name.