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minus-squareSippyCup@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoSo I had a minute of boredom and looked it up. As it turns out, much like I before E, the “sometimes” rule we learned as children is the fucking opposite of truth. Y is a consonant when it makes the “yuh” sound in words like yellow and yak. It’s literally always a vowel otherwise.
‘Sometimes.’
So I had a minute of boredom and looked it up.
As it turns out, much like I before E, the “sometimes” rule we learned as children is the fucking opposite of truth.
Y is a consonant when it makes the “yuh” sound in words like yellow and yak.
It’s literally always a vowel otherwise.
English is insane.