What do you notice about this?

[Abhinav S]

Why thy employ 'Y' frequently, they query coyly?

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[Dalek Dave]

I seem to have missed that Cromulent[^] I actually looked it up and still got it wrong!

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[MannyTheMammoth]

I din't know "Y" is not a vowel in english... It is in french ;)

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[Prerak Patel]

I can read it P-I-M-G-Y in your post...

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[Pete OHanlon]

Well, yes and no. When the letter y is used in place of an i for the phonetic, it is widely considered to be a vowel (hence it's sometimes amusingly referenced "the vaccilating vowel"). In phonics, the rules are simple: 1. The letter y is a consonant when it is the first letter of a syllable that has more than one letter. 2. If y is anywhere else in the syllable, it is a vowel.

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[Dalek Dave]

Yes, oops.

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[Dalek Dave]

What about the W? Have you never seen Gwyn's Cwm Crwth?

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[Jorgen Andersson]

Thanks for clarifying, I have wondered about that.

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[Keith Barrow]

Looks like Welsh.

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[Pete OHanlon]

Indeed - in such cases, w is considered to be a vowel because it is in the middle of a syllable, and represents a variant of the letter u. One of the things that I learned when doing A Level English is that the letters a, e, i, o and u aren't always vowels as well. Vowels represent the phonic representation of the letter, and if the letter doesn't make the vowel sound, it's not a vowel at that point. What does this mean in practical effect? Well, it simplifies the case for knowing when to use "an" versus "a". If the phonic is a vowel sound, then you prefix with "an" instead of "a" - which makes it far easier to understand for people who mangle the language trying to talk about "I went to an university", when they should be using "I went to a university" because the U isn't a phonic vowel.

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[Dalek Dave]

No Sheep have been harmed in the production of that sentence.

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[peterchen]

That can't be it, it's to obvious. Maybe something arithmetic. Nymph = Lymph + 2, in LSB ASCII encoding. Yeah, something like that, surely.

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[BobJanova]

W is a vowel in Welsh, and hence Welsh words and names in English. Not in normal English though.