| Growing up in school, we were taught that the vowels were "a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y and w". A little research just taught me about "diphthongs", which occur when a consonant and a vowel together form a vowel sound (such as boy, eye, cow), so I suppose that's where that originated. I never understood the y and w as a vowel argument. I have always considered them to be consonants. |