Y

[Yar]

Do you consider Y a vowel or a consonant? Don't even think about saying it's one or the other, depending on the context. YOU MUST PICK ONE :mad2:

[Bunny]

Yes.

[Jessweeee♪]

It's one or the other, depending on how it's pronounced in that particular word.



:</>D!

[Aerith's Knight]

It's a vowel, as simple as that.

And in the dutch language it's not used as frequently as in english, so I have no problem thinking of it as a vowel.

[LunarWeaver]

Oh, I don't know. A constonant. No wait, vowel! This is just ridiculous pressure I don't need in my day.

[qwertysaur]

Y...
Y is whatever it feels like.
Y plays by it's own rules.
Y refuses to conform like the other 25 letters in the English alphabet.
Y is such a rebel.
Y...

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

Sometimes Y, Yars, sometimes Y...

[Linus]

It's a terrible letter and should be removed.

[Leeza]

Vowel. Period.

[XxSephirothxX]

Who cares? Once we convert to the metric alphabet it'll get thrown in with all the other trash letters.

[qwertysaur]

Lets replace y with λ!

[Aerith's Knight]

Lets replace y with λ!


This.

Go Labda!

[escobert]

Vowel.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

Lets replace y with λ!


Actually, upsilon would be a more appropriate replacement since when you transliterate, at least from Attic Greek, the upsilon often becomes a y.

[NeoTifa]

Vowel :p .... which rhymes with BOWEL(s)!!!!! HAHA!!!!

[/immature]

[rubah]

I like y. I think I like it as a vowel better.

[The Man]

It's both at once. Duh.

[Crimson]

TELL ME YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!

[qwertysaur]

Lets replace y with λ!


Actually, upsilon would be a more appropriate replacement since when you transliterate, at least from Attic Greek, the upsilon often becomes a y.
yeah but lambda is simply a cooler letter :3
Also sampai should replace the letter f
λ & ϡ = <3
:p

[Levian]

It's a vowel in Norway, so I don't get to pick. :/

I could betray my country and say consonant though, yeah... maybe I will! :mad2:

[rubah]

Norway<-- vowel
betray<- vowel
my<- vowel
country<- vowel
say<- vowel
yeah<- consonant
maybe<- vowel

[Jiro]

It's a vowel. An awesome vowel that tricks people into thinking it's a consonant.

How else can words like syzygy exist?

[Loony BoB]

Norway<-- vowel
betray<- vowel
my<- vowel
country<- vowel
say<- vowel
yeah<- consonant
maybe<- vowel
I disagree! Most of those things where it's considered a vowel to you are a consonant to me.

:p

I prefer the term 'semivowel' in that on occasion it's a vowel, a consonant or even both (as in it could be seen either way).

[rubah]

Try replacing it with the letter i and see if you still think it's a consonant :)

e.g.: way -> wai as in, "no wai!"

[Linus]

It's a vowel. An awesome vowel that tricks people into thinking it's a consonant.

How else can words like syzygy exist?

Every y in syzygy is used as a vowel.
You Yanks and your yapping yams.

P.S. Where is Yamaneko I miss him greatly.

[blackmage_nuke]

It is the vertical co-ordinate and chromosone which makes males

[Meat Puppet]

The letter Y and its subordinate y both contradict my religion, so I refuse to believe that either of them exist.

[Momiji]

Y is just a half-assed method of making the 'i' sound a lot of other languages use.

[~*~Celes~*~]

It's always a vowel to me! <3

[Rantz]

Y is a decent enough letter and that's all that matters.

[scrumpleberry]

Lets replace y with λ!


Actually, upsilon would be a more appropriate replacement since when you transliterate, at least from Attic Greek, the upsilon often becomes a y.

This, lamda has nothing to do with y at all. In fact, you know what? Screw upsilon! Let's bring back the waw (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waw_(letter))!

[qwertysaur]

Lets replace y with λ!


Actually, upsilon would be a more appropriate replacement since when you transliterate, at least from Attic Greek, the upsilon often becomes a y.

This, lamda has nothing to do with y at all. In fact, you know what? Screw upsilon! Let's bring back the waw (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waw_%28letter%29)!
λ is awesome and you know it. I wanna change y to λ for the shape. :p

Also you do not want the waw letter family in your alphabet. In hebrew it is the etter Vav. ו Vav has three sounds. a hard V, a hard oo, and a soft oh, with nothing more then the location of a dot to distinguish between them. And Hebrew doesn't show the dots while being written. =/ Hebrew likes to have multiple sounds distinguished by those dots, then not show them in writing. :p

[DarkBahamut]

In the English language, consonant.