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Y is used as a vowel, pronounced as an I in English pronunciations.
Mmm. Okay. Gonna play with my yo-yo brb. By the way, do you do any yoga? And do you eat any yellow foods?

 

I'm going to have to side with Azu, obsidian... can you provide some examples where a y sounds like a long (as in wine) or short (as in fish) i? I can think of plenty where it sounds like a long e, but none of the former two.

 

Edit: I just thought of a name that uses y as a long i (Kyle), but I'm not sure if names count in this context.

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I'm going to have to side with Azu, obsidian... can you provide some examples where a y sounds like a long (as in wine) or short (as in fish) i? I can think of plenty where it sounds like a long e, but none of the former two.

 

Edit: I just thought of a name that uses y as a long i (Kyle), but I'm not sure if names count in this context.

 

I don't have time to go looking now, but a short "i" sound is found in words like eucalyptus.

 

Oh, and how about long I as in fly, bye and sky?

 

Here you go:

synthetic

mystical

rhythm

physical

cylinder

 

The list goes on...

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I don't have time to go looking now, but a short "i" sound is found in words like eucalyptus.

 

Oh, and how about long I as in fly, bye and sky?

 

Good enough. :) As long as one counterexample exists, then the rule is broken. The rule being "y can't sound like i", in this case.

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Ah, the crazy words that make it into the dictionary... :-\

 

No kidding. Ok, I can admit defeat, you guys win :P

 

I can live with wizywig and maybe goo-e (though I probably won't be able to say those without a big smurk on my face), both of witch apparently made it to the dictionary, but I refuse to say sequel.

 

In either case, anyone who complains about any part of this either:

 

A) Just likes to complain

 

B) Is fortunate enough in life to not have anything real to complain about

 

Put me down in the first category ;)

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[...], but I refuse to say sequel.

 

(My) sequel sounds stupid too and the official way of saying MySQL is to say "my" and then the letters:

The official way to pronounce “MySQL” is “My Ess Que Ell” (not “my sequel”)

 

If things have an official way of saying it or it's in a dictionary then that's the way I'll pronounce it.

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No kidding. Ok, I can admit defeat, you guys win :P

Nah, don't need to admit defeat. You've got good arguments, and besides, I'm not saying that the English pronunciation of things is the right way, just that it's valid ;) lol.

 

I can live with wizywig and maybe goo-e (though I probably won't be able to say those without a big smurk on my face), both of witch apparently made it to the dictionary, but I refuse to say sequel.

While I say "sequel" for SQL, I still agree that, although the other two words are acceptable and I do say them, they still sound rather silly heh.

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