but they never taught us when it was a vowel...
“A, E, I, O, and U. And sometimes Y” was how I learned the vowels.
Y is a consonant until does the duty of a vowel in words like: cry, dry, fly, my, try, wyrd, and some others.
Tar
Tyre
Tire
Tie-ra
Ty-ra
Yodel
Yodly-Do-Da-in
Yar
And don’t get Me started on the Brits with the creating new “words”.
Honder
Tayoter
Daytoner
Americer