12.
Fourteen letters here we fix,
Vowels only two are spoken;
All together these we mix
Into what can not be broken.
A WEIRD WORD
13. There is an English word of thirteen letters in which the same vowel occurs four times, the same consonant six times, another consonant twice, and another once. Can you hit upon it?
A CONDENSED PROVERB
14. Though brevity is said to be the soul of wit, we are too often flooded nowadays with a superabundance of words.
Here is an attempt at modest condensation. A familiar English proverb is quite clearly expressed to the solver’s seeing eyes in this brief phrase:—
WE IS DO