What about these vowels?

[spamhater]

We've been told that the vowels are, "A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y", right?

So, where the fuck does "Y" come into play? Is it, or is it not, a vowel?

This is bothering me. Please help.

Thanks in advance.

Comments

[sing_dream_love]

Check this out:
http://www.decoz.com/Y_vowel-consonant.htm

What I gathered from this site is that Y is a vowel when it creates a vowel sound in a word, such as in the word why or in the name Bryan. It's a consonant when the syllable that it's in already has a vowel sound, such as in the name Maloney, the name already has the "e" vowel sound so therefore the letter Y is a consonant.

I'm sure that the website explains it better, so yea, why don't you just read that? ;-)

[spamhater]

I'd rather just wait right here and get a more better definition.

Nothing personal. ;-)

[hardvice]

A "hard Y" is a consonant (yellow, you, young). It can occur at the beginning of the word or at the beginning of a syllable (coyote

[spamhater]

Whoa! That's going to make me look up the definition to 'diphthong'.

You're not Mrs. Schmidt's little boy, Hardvice, are you? LOL

[sockmonkie]

this has nothing much to do with your comment. i love the word awl. well, the word dipthong to, for that matter.

[spamhater]

'crwth' might be kinda cool too, if I had a clue how to pronounce it. Or what the fuck it meant.

[sockmonkie]

i see it's been answered but i thought i'd put in my 2 cents.

y is a vowel when it sounds like a vowel. it is not a vowel when it is has a vowel with in the same syllable of the word in question.

[spamhater]

Fair enough but I think mir_leigh pretty well nailed it after all.

Nice icon, by the way. ;-)

[spamhater]

"cwm" was misspelled, it was supposed to be "cum"; in which case the vowel is covered. ;-)