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minus-squareSippyCup@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agoI never learned when Y was a vowel and at this point I’m to afraid to ask.
minus-squareSippyCup@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoSo I had a minute of boredom and looked it up. As it turns out, much like I before E, the “sometimes” rule we learned as children is the fucking opposite of truth. Y is a consonant when it makes the “yuh” sound in words like yellow and yak. It’s literally always a vowel otherwise.
minus-squareSoulg@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 days agoIt’s a vowel when you can pronounce the sound without moving your lips
minus-squareJerkface (any/all)@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoSo v, z, f, l, h, m, n, r, s, some Ts, and leading Xs are all vowels?
I never learned when Y was a vowel and at this point I’m to afraid to ask.
‘Sometimes.’
So I had a minute of boredom and looked it up.
As it turns out, much like I before E, the “sometimes” rule we learned as children is the fucking opposite of truth.
Y is a consonant when it makes the “yuh” sound in words like yellow and yak.
It’s literally always a vowel otherwise.
English is insane.
It’s a vowel when you can pronounce the sound without moving your lips
So v, z, f, l, h, m, n, r, s, some Ts, and leading Xs are all vowels?