2006-10-23 19:23:27 · 20 answers · asked by sweetie 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
All of the words the first two reponders came up with have vowels. The 'y' clearly acts as a vowel in those cases.
I sure can't think of any. There are plenty of words without a,e,i,o, or u, but that doesn't mean they don't have a vowel. A vowel is defined by the type of sound you make during pronunciation, nothing more. When you pronounce rythym, the y's are pronounced identically to i's. In the y in year has a totally different sound, and is clearly a consonant.
Didn't you people ever hear the old saying: "a,e,i,o,u and sometimes y"?
2006-10-23 19:27:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
pablodiablo19 is right. The letter 'y' can act as a vowel, and so can 'w'. The answer is there is no word in the English language without a vowel.
2006-10-24 02:40:20 · answer #2 · answered by Bekk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
TWYNDYLLYNGS
Twyndyllyngs is the longest word in English that doesn't contain one of the five vowels (AEIOU). It comes from Welsh and is obviously rare, but it does appear in the Oxford English Dictionary.
2006-10-24 04:57:59 · answer #3 · answered by ~p♥kes~ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is one I like to use every day... "mmmm!"
It is both a spoken and written form of English (as well as other languages) communication indicating one of several emotional mental or physical states. Therefore, it is a word.
As for whether it is a verb or a noun or whatever, I find it best used as a proposition - errr... preposition.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkCY3pwT8XCmwSX5cwPwcLDsy6IX?qid=20061007133913AAg07f7
2006-10-24 02:59:46 · answer #4 · answered by sincere12_26 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nth
as in the "nth number from x"
QT as in you.
kfc sells fried chicken
wd-40 is a lubricant
tnt is dynamite
lots of abbreviations have become standard usage in the English language. You might even find them in dictionaries. Does that count?
2006-10-24 02:31:48 · answer #5 · answered by Draco Moonbeam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's a list of the words containing no vowels which are currently valid in North American Scrabble play:
BRR
BRRR
CRWTH
CRWTHS
CWM
CWMS
HM
HMM
MM
NTH
PFFT
PSST
SH
SHH
TSK
TSKS
TSKTSK
TSKTSKS (fifty point bonus!)
2006-10-24 02:27:16 · answer #6 · answered by Pre_T_1 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
cwm pronounced koom means A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake
2006-10-24 02:29:57 · answer #7 · answered by lost_soul 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah shyt , oops i'v ' just opened my vowels !
2006-10-24 03:09:16 · answer #8 · answered by nicemanvery 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spy
2006-10-24 02:29:11 · answer #9 · answered by Asmerom T 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
pablodiablo19....'y' is not a vowel...their answer is correct...
a, e, i, o & u are the vowels..
2006-10-24 02:32:13 · answer #10 · answered by Electric 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋