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[โ€“] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] SippyCup 1 points 1 day ago

So I had a minute of boredom and looked it up.

As it turns out, much like I before E, the "sometimes" rule we learned as children is the fucking opposite of truth.

Y is a consonant when it makes the "yuh" sound in words like yellow and yak.

It's literally always a vowel otherwise.