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by mystified5016 378 days ago
Y and W are sometimes used as vowels. They are technically consonants, but in some cases produce a vowel sound.

The rule in English is not "all true words contain a vowel" it's that all words contain a vowel sound.

Except the ones that don't, because English is a very messy language.

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Hmm...