a, e, i, o, u... and sometimes y? I don't think so

Just a little F.Y.I. for everyone. I told Matt that everyone here had heard of the a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y rule and he was right and I was wrong! Damn, that was really hard to say too! I accepted my defeat and gladly made good on our bet! :wink:

Just to elaborate on what sailor said:

In Latin, the letter which looks like our letter β€˜i’ (or sometimes β€˜j’) is almost identical in value to our letter β€˜y’. Typically, the β€˜i’ symbol is used when it’s being used for a more vowell-like sound, and the β€˜j’ symbol is used when it’s more consonant-like, but the sounds of both versions are actually extremely similar, other than the length of the sound-- Try saying EE-upiter versus Y-upiter, for instance.

By the way, all of you linguists out there trying to describe letters with serifs, if you use an isolated end-bold tag, it turns the following text into a serif font**, at least in Netscape.