"I" and "y" question

[Elegy]

Hello everyone !

My mothertongue is not english and I was just wondering something.

Please excuse this certainly stupid question but answers will help me for sure to make good choices in the future.

Does it sounds/looks cool or trendy to replace an "i" with an "y" inside a word and most importantly: is it correct ?

mmm for example : "disk" and "dysk". Does it sounds the same ? Does it looks cool to english (mothertongue) speaking people or is it wrong/not cool to have a name like this ?

Thank you for your answers :blink:

 

[DomainTalker]

Hi, Elegy,

No, its not correct in English to replace the 'i' with a 'y' in a word...

In your example, "dysk" is not an English word - and, certainly is not the same as "disk" - although, "disk" is more normally spelt as "Disc", as in "CD - ie Compact Disc".

I can't think of any English words where the 'i' could be replaced by a 'y', and still mean the same word.

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[Elegy]

Thanks for your answer DomainTalker.

But I mean, would it have the same pronounciation and would it be fun/cool to write it this way for an original website name or is it totally lame or incomprehensible ?

 

[tristanperry]

But I mean, would it have the same pronounciation and would it be fun/cool to write it this way for an original website name or is it totally lame or incomprehensible ?

It's a little hard to quantify, however I'd say that it would have the same pronounce-ability in most cases. Having said that, it is relatively incomprehensible - it wouldn't be clear, in English mother-tongue (spoken or written), that the "y" was intended to be written as a "i".

So to summarise - try to avoid doing this where possible.

 

[dbtbandit67]

it can be. in those specific examples you brought up i don't think so.

 

[namenut]

Not grammatically but more so for branding. You cant
TM the word "stick" but you can TM the name "STYCK".

If I'm understanding the Q: correctly



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[tricolorro]

Hello everyone !Does it sounds/looks cool or trendy to replace an "i" with an "y" inside a word and most importantly: is it correct ?

mmm for example : "disk" and "dysk". Does it sounds the same ? Does it looks cool to english (mothertongue) speaking people or is it wrong/not cool to have a name like this ?

:hi:

English is not an easy language.

One of the reasons is the inconsistency in how vowels are pronounced.


Most likely someone reading "dysk" would pronounce it like a
long "I" (eye) and not like short "I" (ih).

Sometimes the letter "Y" may sound like a short "I" when used
at the end of a word.

For example:
Lonely
Mostly
Happily
Totally
Funny
Crazy
inconsistency

It could also have a long "I" sound at the end of a word:
Cry
Fly
My
Shy


Normally when "Y" is used inside English words,the "Y" sounds like "eye", the long "I" sound.

Dyke
Tyke
Thyme
Crying
Dying
Hype
Dyson
Shylark
Style
Cypress

Some exceptions I can think of to the above where "Y" sounds
like a short "I" are the names:
Sylvestor
Sylvia
Syria

And:
Syringe

Overall, I don't think "dysk" would work for you.

 

[UrbanCowboy]

The only example I can think of is bite and byte which are pronounced the same but have different meanings.

 

[mjbenterprises]

As someone above said, this can be an excellent opportunity for Branding.... Example, Kyll.com as opposed to kill.com.....The word kyll, although not a real word, can be easily branded into a memorable website or company...There are , of course, much better examples...