Why are w and y not vowels?
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Well, how could you pronounce bwnwnw or drwp or wdwr?\nY is sometimes used as a vowel, e.g. myth, crypt, hymn.
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There isn't a real rule, it's much the same as asking when do you end a word with a 'y' or an 'ie' in English.  It all depends on the word.
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A and W. The letters are the first letters of the words in the question. And Why :)
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it's not words beginning with a vowel, it's words beginning with a vowel SOUND. so, like honor..."It was an honor" because it sounds like an "o". Also, it's "I type slowly." It's an adverb. IT's only used as slow when it's an adjective or noun" Like, Slow and Steady wins the race." But, with the H, it's only if it sounds like a vowel, not necessarily if it is a vowel. So...examples:" That's a house. (sounds like an "h")", "It's spelled with an "h"(sounds like an "a"). Sorry, these are confusing sentences...but, do you get what I'm trying to say? :) Hope it helps
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1) Excessive vowels. 2) Southern states. 3) End with a vowel.
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what's wrong with I<M or Y!A?\n\nthere's a lot of that going round!
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the roman alphabet is pretty similar to ours but Us and Vs are almost interchangeable and they didn't have Js or I's. I'm in latin class right now and we just went over this.
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Twyndyllyngs is the longest word without any of the common vowel letters a, e, i, o, or u (although y is certainly a vowel in that and many other words). Euouae, at six letters long, is the longest English word consisting only of vowels.
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There aren't any Roman Deities that start with the letter "W" because the ancient Roman alphabet didn't have that letter. The letter was added later for languages other than Latin.
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Russian has no "w", if you substitute "v" for "w" you have made the first step. If you roll your 'r', almost as they do in a Spanish speaking country, you progressed further.\nAlso, practice your pronunciation on the word "riba" (the meaning of which is fish, by the way). Except, instead of the English "i" put a different consonant, comprised of two you know, y and w. If you do "riba" right, you can definitely emulate Russian accent. LOL. Good Luck.
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English spelling is not phonetic (well, maybe barely phonetic)\nAt first spelling was totally sound-out.\nPrinting started to standardize spelling, then pronunciation changed.  Spelling was already standardized, so spelling did not.\nAlso, at one point in our history, some 'learnéd' people decided to add letters to make the (probable) Latin root more apparent--that's when we got the 'b' in debt.\nMy favorite one though is where did the 'w' go in one?  It moved over to 'two'--which of course, by the standard letter values should be pronounced 'own' and 'twoh'.
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well in this case y is a vowel so it does have vowels, but its probably the only word that has three y's in it. or every other letter is a y ?\n\nahah! according to wikipedia, it is the shortest word in the English language with three y's.
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If you are talking about the English language there are 2 words that have w and their vowel. one is "cwm" which is a basin found @ the base of a mountain sometimes has a lake near by .  the other one is "crwth" which is a Celtic musical instrument. These words usually only come up on extremely difficult crossword puzzles. good luck
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The longest word without a vowel is Rhythm.\nIt is referenced on below web site where you can find more fun facts.
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There are few words in the language that actualy contain no vowels, especially if you are considering "y" a vowel, which I certainly do.  Two examples (of which there are very few) are cwm - a bowl shaped mountain basin; and crwth - an ancient celtic stringed instrument.  \n\nAlso, certain anomonopeia (pretty sure that's spelled wrong... you know, a word that's spelled the way it sounds) such as pssst or brr, are in fact considered words like the guy above says.\n\nAs for words with no consanents...  I went searching and found the page below that says the following vowel only words are in dictionaries... don't ask me what they mean though, not sure for most of them...\n\nAA - Lava\nAE \nAI \nAIEEE \nIAO \nOII \nEAU - I think it's an animal\nEUOUAE \nOE \nOO \nI - obvious\nO \nA - obvious\nIO - One of the moons circling Jupiter I believe.\nand UOIAUAI
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Because "To" and "Go" are pronounced differently.\n;)
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Technically speaking, there is one and only one common word in the English language that has five vowels in a row and that is: queueing. \n\n\nAll the other ones such as:\n\nEuouae (6 in this case!)\nCooeeing \nMiaoued\nMiaouing\nZoaeae\n\nare all considered graphalogically incorrect variants. \n\nAnd the list of "proper names" containing a sequence of 5 vowels in a row include:\n\nRousseauian \nAeaea or Aiaia and the related adjectives Aeaean / Aiaian.\n\nFinally, and as you mentioned, not considering "stuff" that do NOT count such as: "aaaaah", "oooooh", "ouuuuch" and so on.