Is Y a vowel Vote!

Actually it is sometimes a vowel and sometimes a consonant. Read the explanation here. The problem is when people call it a vowel or a consonant not when it makes sense, but when it serves their purposes.

At the end of the LLLL, yes.

aeiou and sometimes y according to this old school jam

http://youtube.com/watch?v=x2c6k3dJbOg

It doesn't need to be a poll, it's not a matter of opinion. And you didn't even put the correct answer in your poll options.

Personally, I think this poll was a good idea

You can poll all you want but according to the conventions of the English language
it serves as a consonant or a vowel. No poll will make the y in "myth" or "my" a consonant.

DomainRaiders.com said:

The problem is when people call it a vowel or a consonant not when it makes sense, but when it serves their purposes.

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:bingo:

I can't vote either way in the poll as it really depends on the placement of the "Y"

I'm not going to vote. You should have added an extra poll option for "sometimes".

It just depends on the letters and order.

SpareDomains said:

aeiou and sometimes y according to this old school jam

http://youtube.com/watch?v=x2c6k3dJbOg

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Lol, that is the first thing that came into my head. AEIOU and Sometimes Y.

No!

I vote no. Why? Well, let's take the word pray, stay, or even day. I never thought of the y in these words as a vowel. Does a word have to have a vowel in it to be a word? Hmmmm, so how about try, fry, or my..... maybe I'm wrong! Oh well, I voted.

Frank

I think that as far as domain names go, any attempt to call "y" a vowel, when it is part of a relatively unpronounceable name is just trickery. Since the status of "y" depends on how it is *pronounced* in a word due to its placement in said word, its vowel status in an unpronounceable llll, say, must be (kind of) indeterminate. The grammatical rules in question were just not meant to handle nonsensical "words" (though they still might look pretty cool).

The normal set of vowels are exempt here, since they are pronounced in a "vowel-y" (pronounceable!) sort of way regardless of their position in a word.

In a more or less pronounceable name, I guess the value one attaches to the letter "y" must depend on the overall pronounceability of the name, where a dictionary word involving the letter as vowel would be at the top of the heap as far as value is concerned. :D

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From what was taught in school, "AEIOU" are vowels, not Y

htmlindex said:

From what was taught in school, "AEIOU" are vowels, not Y

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Exactly. VCVCCCC

Why Play?

This one's a vowel:
WHY

This one's not:
PLAY

YAYnames.com said:

This one's a vowel:
WHY

This one's not:
PLAY

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exactly-

Vowel: sky, why, Psychology
Consonant: yesteryear

There will never be a definite "yes" or "no" answer to this question. I'm not going to vote because of that.

What a stupid poll.

Y is not a vowel.... period!

Y can be used in such a way that it plays the role of the vowel.... that doesn't make it a vowel any more than it makes some "D-rated" Actor (male) a woman because he plays one of the ugly sisters at the xmas pantomime!

Y is sometimes considered a vowel.

I was always taught in school growing up, "AEIOU and sometimes Y".


Here is a quote from the wikipedia history and definition of "Y" .

wikipedia.org said:

The letter Y was originally established as a vowel. In the standard English language, the letter Y is traditionally regarded as a consonant, but a survey of almost any English text, will show that Y more commonly functions as a vowel. In many cases, it is known as a semivowel (a type of consonant).

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It's interesting to see what you would have to choose between yes or no. I think it's a fun poll without the cop-out sometimes.

I say no, even when used as a vowel. Words like Fly, Why, and Cry do not exist and are figments of our imagination.

Either that or they are just spelled wrong and should be Fli, Whi and Cri.

You cannot say "yes" or "not", since it depends on the word you are considering: sometimes Y is a vowel, sometimes it's a consonant..

DomainRaiders.com said:

.....here. ...

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Eh eh, I was just gonna add the same link

YAYnames.com said:

This one's a vowel:
WHY

This one's not:
PLAY

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That's not true: "AY" is a double-vowel combination, just like "AI" in the word "chai."

Y is not a vowel when used as the "yuh" sound in "yard" or "beyond."

I think it's actually closer to the truth to say that "Y" is a vowel that sometimes acts like a consonant, as it shows up much more frequently in a vowel position than it does in a consonant-type position.

dag said:

That's not true: "AY" is a double-vowel combination, just like "AI" in the word "chai."

Y is not a vowel when used as the "yuh" sound in "yard" or "beyond."

I think it's actually closer to the truth to say that "Y" is a vowel that sometimes acts like a consonant, as it shows up much more frequently in a vowel position than it does in a consonant-type position.

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Baloney... and it's a consonant there, too.

YAYnames.com said:

Baloney... and it's a consonant there, too.

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Which part is baloney? It's all true.

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutother/lettery