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"you" all vowels?

Does the word "you" contain all vowels? Or is the "y" considered a consonant?

"You" is a funny word to begin with anyways. How did the "y" and the "o" get screwed out of the pronunciation and it's just "u"?

Any help given to me, a linguistically vowel-challenged fool, would be appreciated.


Posted by: unlikelymoose on May 20, 09 | 10:58 pm  |   [1916] Hits  |   permalink

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Y at the BEGINNING of a syllable marks a consonant sound (and so may be called a consonant) examples: you yellow yak

Y elsewhere in a syllable (middle or end) represents a vowel sound (and so is called a vowel). examples -- the many words with a -y ending/suffix: happy, funny...


Posted by: Tom on May 26, 09 | 7:37 am


the letter "y" the vowel-consonant shape-shifter.

Posted by: spudart on May 26, 09 | 10:05 am


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