r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 4d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah??

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u/DasWarEinerZuviel 4d ago

It is because even that trick is wrong

A.vowel is a sound, not a letter. Hence why the letter y sometimes produces a vowel sound and the latter u sometimes doesn't (making the saying wrong)

u/Ghuldarkar 4d ago

Arguably y is at baseline a vowel letter and sometimes becomes a consonantic i-sound.

u/DasWarEinerZuviel 4d ago

The point is: Vowel is a sound, not a letter.

Doesn't matter if it is y or u or anything else

u/Ghuldarkar 3d ago

I agree. That is why I wrote “vowel letter“ as in that it generally stands for a vowel. I was originally going to write more about how the consonant it makes sometimes is derived from a vocalic root.