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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
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Y as a vowel

How do you explain how Y is used as a vowel?
  

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Y is not considered a vowel in the alphabet. The vowels are A, E, I, O, U. However, in words like boy , or happy , it represents a vowel sound .

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  • Y is not considered a vowel in the alphabet.
  • The vowels are A, E, I, O, U.
  • However, in words like boy , or happy , it represents a vowel sound .
  • In words like yellow , or yeah , it represents an approximant (also called semi-vowel).
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Y is not considered a vowel in the alphabet. The vowels are A, E, I, O, U.

However, in words like boy, or happy, it represents a vowel sound. In words like yellow, or yeah, it represents an approximant (also called semi-vowel).
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In the words sky, try and others, the y is definitely a vowel.
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AnonymousHow do you explain how Y is used as a vowel?

I explain it by saying that Y is used as a substitute for I in many words.

mysterious, for example, is pronounced like *misterious, but we spell it with y, not i.
Likewise, hymnal is pronounced as if *himnal; symbol is pronounced as if
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I’m trying to decide if the y in the words pray, stay, clay is a vowel or consonant
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