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1. That might be the easiest riddle in the history of riddles.

   posted by Jon on 4-13-2009 at 9:11 am

2. Great way to start off my week!

   posted by Cheryl on 4-13-2009 at 9:14 am

3. That’s okay, Jon… I’d rather that be the case than have another “gry” on our hands.

   posted by Sandy Wood on 4-13-2009 at 9:45 am

4. Easy but fun. LOL on the “gry” – I can’t even think about it too much without getting frustrated at that damn riddle!

   Oh, and I’m always on the fence with “y” in these puzzles as a ‘sometimes-vowel’. What it this is one of those times when it’s a consonant?!

   posted by Josh on 4-13-2009 at 10:24 am

5. “I” got it.

   posted by Sue on 4-13-2009 at 10:36 am

6. This is, in fact, one of those times that Y is a consonant. So it’s not spelled with three vowels.

   posted by Andy on 4-13-2009 at 10:54 am

7. Uhhh, ear?

   posted by Kung Pow HausFrau on 4-13-2009 at 11:57 am

8. I remember learning that “y” is a vowel only if there are no other vowels as in why, try, or shy.

   posted by julie on 4-13-2009 at 9:29 pm

9. But not in bye or rye… or eye? It’s used as a diphthong. (My English teacher would have been proud; this is the first time I remember discussing diphthongs outside of class.)

   posted by Sandy Wood on 4-14-2009 at 2:11 am

10. Julia, that is not correct. The rule for telling the two apart is simple: The letter y is a consonant when it is the first letter of a syllable that has more than one letter. If y is anywhere else in the syllable, it is a vowel.

    Therefore in the word eye, ‘y’ is a vowel.

    posted by Jeffrey (y - as a vowel) on 4-14-2009 at 5:39 pm

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