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To: DallasBiff

but they never taught us when it was a vowel...


3 posted on 04/22/2024 5:23:07 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chode

“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.


11 posted on 04/22/2024 5:33:04 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Chode; Carriage Hill

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


30 posted on 04/22/2024 6:11:39 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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