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does Y count as a vowel?
I heard once that it does.
(I helped save b3ta! minimum fuss - an all time favourite, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:41, archived)
Only if there are no other vowels in the word.

(I helped save b3ta! Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:42, archived)
Or'ly?

(I helped save b3ta! Captn Hood-Butter is not dead yet., Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:43, archived)
O'Reilly.

(I helped save b3ta! Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:44, archived)
auto parts

(I helped save b3ta! tolin its me, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:45, archived)
Mmm. Reminds me of a lovely boy I went to college with.
He had an accent and a glimmer in his eye.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:45, archived)
Like myth?
You learn something new every day.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:43, archived)
or mythyth.

(I helped save b3ta! Captn Hood-Butter is not dead yet., Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:45, archived)
One of thethe dayth I'll be a mythith
I'm getting married dressed (drethed) as Robin.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:46, archived)
Well, it's a kind of a dodge, really.
Part of the way that the English language and grammar have been defined haphazardly over the years.
Someone decided that it was a rule that all words had to contain at least one vowel.
Someone else pointed out that many didn't.
So y becomes an occasional vowel to cover.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:47, archived)
Ohhhh, politics.

(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:48, archived)
It's always politics when I'm around.

(I helped save b3ta! Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:54, archived)
It's basically the bastard lovechild of the letter i anyway.

(I helped save b3ta! Noit happy baby orangutan, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:48, archived)
This might sound like a simple topic but it's not.
See here for details.
(I helped save b3ta! Zuowan, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:53, archived)
Only if all the other vowels are busy.

(I helped save b3ta! Lightguy hail satan, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:42, archived)
It does when it's used as a vowel.
You can tell by the sound.
(I helped save b3ta! Zuowan, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:44, archived)
It's a semivowel,
along with W.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:45, archived)
That rule only applies in Wales and other backwards places.

(I helped save b3ta! Noit happy baby orangutan, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:49, archived)
no, it really is.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semivowel
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:50, archived)
W should be 2 Us stuck together
but it's not. It's 2 Vs stuck together
(Monk3yspunkmop3d throws grenades, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:50, archived)
U and V were originally the same letter,
just different styles of writing them.
You can still write round-bottomed Ws without ambiguity.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:54, archived)
sexual ambiguity?

(Monk3yspunkmop3d throws grenades, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:57, archived)
Round bottoms are unambiguously sexy.

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:57, archived)