You're only another "AE" away from...
- Aeaeae a.
- Magic. As in aeaeae artes, the magic arts. The only all-vowel six-letter word known to the author. The derivation is from Aeaeae, which was a surname of the legendary pig-fancier Circe and the name of a small island off the coast of Italy, said to have been her place of abode. Useful for unscrupulous players of parlor word-games. If taken to task for using it in such circumstances, you say: "Well, yes, strictly speaking it is foreign, I suppose -- at least in origin -- but, surely, it's a word everyone knows, isn't it?"
(From the
Superior Person's Book of Words)