I’ll see your “queueing” and raise you “syzygy” (the only word in the English language composed entirely of consonants). 
I know that trivia, but don’t like it, as “y” is a vowel there.
No, it’s the second from the end.
He posted after midnight my time! Can’t I get my beauty sleep? That takes 20 hours a day at my age.
I think we’re saying the same thing too. Which is why I don’t understand the coyness.
Inevitable.
“Inevitable” - so true here!
In terms of antepenultimate and referring to the second from the end vs. third, it all comes down to how you count for the end.
And if it did count, why wouldn’t “rhythm” also count?
Hmmmm…
Just barely. 
My favorite word for a long time has been “Boffin.” I love saying it.
Boffin, Boffin, Boffin.
Lately I have been enjoying “tiffin” as well.
Someday, I hope to take tiffin with a Boffin.
Except that half of the letters are vowels.
Well, let’s not take pedantry to the nth degree.
Or myth?
Try saying the word…
“SzG-EEE.”
crwth, cwm, nth, shh , psst, brr, brrrr, pht, phpht(and others) are all legal voweless plays in Scrabble, along with dozens of words that use the letter Y with no vowels.
Cooeeing another with 5 vowels in a row. How bout goddessship , three of the same letter consecutive.
I’m saying the word. Three vowels. If it were spelled sizigee, it would be pronounced exactly the same.
This is a word you normally never hear pronounced, so I had to check.
Dictionary.com lists three styles of rendering the word.
siz-i-jee
sɪzɪdʒɪ
sĭz’ə-jē
All three would be pronounced in the same way, all with three syllables, all with three vowels.
I was trying to give terentii the benefit of the doubt: that, even with the first and second ‘y’ muttered to the point where you could kinda sorta get away with compressing it into nonexistence, that last ‘y’ still sings as a vowel.
If you want to argue it’s even worse than that, I’m certainly not going to stop you. But even on the most forgiving reading, I still figure it vowels out.
Ah, the clue of terseness. An actual thing out of a John Dickson Carr mystery. I didn’t figure that out either.
I’m always mystified when people try to argue that y isn’t a vowel. Y is almost always a vowel. The y in yellow isn’t far off from the y in gym, although the first is classified as a consonant. But that takes us into the realm of the semi-vowel, which is where I hop off the train.
Mostly, though, it’s necessary to realize that vowels and consonants (and semi-vowels) represent sounds. We procrusteanly squeeze that into making letters vowels and consonants as a ease to teachers in grade schools. Like trying to apply the rules of arithmetic to higher math, this fails quickly and serves to confuse people in the real and much more complicated world.
Indeed. In fact, if you teach a speech synthesizer to vocalize the y in yellow and the y in gym, you won’t find any difference at all.
Same thing will happen if you teach it to vocalize the ws in wear and cwm.
I will begrudgingly concede that w is a consonant in “Hawai’i” and “Werner von Braun.”
The W’s in wear and cwm are very different.