[Ahh_Pathetic]

if i have left the house yeah

Yeah but she hadn't left it she just popped out to dance naked for a bit.

[Uglybob]

was that not lady godiva

[kendra k]

funny y'all metion hansel and gretel (sometimes grytel!!!!), just one of the lovely fairy tales drudged up by the brothers grimm (2 of the göttingen 7) as a survey of german dialects in the late 19th century. this was and important study for modern germanic phonetics, which you wouldn't care about...

... but you should. yeah, i hate to agree with sidla, but y is a vowel. problem is (staticfish, i hate the term half vowel but it sorta works), y is also a glide. yeah. which explains the difference in <y> in "why" vs. "junky". blame the english vowel shift of the 14th century.
stuff you should read about vowels.

[Sidders]

We should add an extra letter really. Or just replace all y vowels with i.

[kendra k]

did you look at that link? [y] and [i] are not the same vowel!

in the history of troublesome vowels though, i-j and u-v are very similar. j is one of the newest letters in the alphabet. before it was just written as an i, though slightly different. back in the day the same thing was done with u and v. you just knew which was which. it sucked when there were words with a wu combo as it would look like this- uuu. ugh. yeah. trivia fact- there's no j street in washington d.c. because it wasn't really considered a letter yet. more about the alphabet

[Ahh_Pathetic]

danny baker said on terry an gaby that & was the 27th letter of the alphabet.

F*ckin best source of information there is.

[Sidders]

did you look at that link? [y] and [i] are not the same vowel!

in the history of troublesome vowels though, i-j and u-v are very similar. j is one of the newest letters in the alphabet. before it was just written as an i, though slightly different. back in the day the same thing was done with u and v. you just knew which was which. it sucked when there were words with a wu combo as it would look like this- uuu. ugh. yeah. trivia fact- there's no j street in washington d.c. because it wasn't really considered a letter yet. more about the alphabet

Ach. I'm not talking about ancient times, I'm talking about now.

[kendra k]

they aren't the same vowel now!!!

oh wait. never mind. you know crap all about language. bad kendra. no eddie.