| @horseydeucey:
Linguistically, it doesn't really matter if there are other vowels in the word nearby, it's about the sound that it makes. So in "yellow" the "y" isn't really a vowel, it's what's called a "glide", but in "only" it's a vowel because it makes the "ee" sound. In Seychelles, the "y" still serves the purpose of a vowel because it alters the sound from what the "e" would be without it. More or less... I puzzled over Seychelles, though, but because the "y" is there and it's definitely not a consonant, I figured that at the very least it should be considered a silent vowel...
@JWJr:
I'll make a note. That's what I was trying to get across when I changed the initial first question from "the countries that contain only one vowel" to "one of the five vowels" attempting to clarify, but a note should definitely be there, and I'll add that for sure. |
U.S. States 
Countries of Africa 
Countries of Asia
