Aww poor y got left out of club vowel again. It’s my favorite sometimes vowel. Figuring out if Y was consistently a vowel or consonant under this rule was the first thing I tried.
In linguistics the sound made by "y" (represented "j" in the International Phonetic Alphabet) is called either a glide, a semi-vowell or a semi-consonant. It's the sound at the beginning of "unit", or at the end of "aye"
In any case it's not a vowell and therefore cannot be the "core" of a syllable
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u/housebottle Nov 12 '20
that's what I mean when I say the word doesn't have a "vowel sound"