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What a great try (startrek.website)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Y is only sometimes a vowel: when it forms a vowel sound in a word.

In the case of "dry, crypt and dryly", we could perhaps spell them "drie, cript and drielee" if we wish to see where those more familiar vowel sounds exist in those words.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I've been reading up on it since the previous commentator drew my attention to it. Odd the bits of eduction you miss in life.