Y and w are both vowels (both considered vowels) in Welsh. Judy Evans, Cardiff --- On Fri, 15/7/11, John Wager <jwager@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: John Wager <jwager@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: conference on hypothesis testing > To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Friday, 15 July, 2011, 20:29 > Donal McEvoy wrote: > > Try all you like but they seem hellbent on examining > 'What is it like to be the only gay in the village and use > 'w' as a vowel?', > > > When I was in second grade, I distinctly remember being > taught the vowels by making a hand-outline on my newsprint > paper and writing A-E-I-O-U on all the finger tips, and then > writing W and Y on the heel of the hand. But years > later, I realized that only "Y" was REALLY a vowel, and > couldn't see why in the world I had remembered both W and > Y. Was it my first confirmed faulty memory example? > Was I mis-taught in Pennsylvania? Was there some secret that > only my second grade teacher knew that nobody else > knew? My "hypothesis" is that there is a problem > somewhere; this is fairly easy to test, at least. But > now you have given me a new hypothesis to test: Perhaps my > second > grade teacher was Welsh!!! Or at least realized English > included the possibility of using "W" as a vowel, in some > localities? Is "W" really a vowel in Welsh? Or is this > also just some kind of weird dream from my past? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, > vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html