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Only if there are no other vowels in the word.

(, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:42, archived)
Or'ly?

(, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:43, archived)
O'Reilly.

(, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:44, archived)
auto parts

(, 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.
(, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:45, archived)
Like myth?
You learn something new every day.
(, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:43, archived)
or mythyth.

(, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:45, archived)
One of thethe dayth I'll be a mythith
I'm getting married dressed (drethed) as Robin.
(, 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.
(, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:47, archived)
Ohhhh, politics.

(, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:48, archived)
It's always politics when I'm around.

(, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:54, archived)
It's basically the bastard lovechild of the letter i anyway.

(, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:48, archived)
This might sound like a simple topic but it's not.
See here for details.
(, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 17:53, archived)