Wiki sez oy vey is Yiddish, but oy vavoy is Hebrew.
(YO ADRIAN! I DID IT!)
But that is not the Hebrew spelling of those words.
Surely you don’t expect me to yo-yo on this.
At this point I wouldn’t dream of it. I am impressed with your inconsonants.
I’m in awe of your compliment.
Iouea is the name of a genus of sea sponges.
Yew is the name of a tree.
‘w’ certainly does NOT count as a vowel in the word “Iowa.” There is apparently wide and deep misunderstanding about y and w sometimes being vowels. See diphthongs.
Oa - the home of the Guardians and the Green Lantern Corps
Oe - a village in Estonia
oi - oy
Oo - a commune in France
ou - an endangered form of the Hawaiian honeycreeper, a bird
oy - an exclamation of chagrin or dismay
Memorizing the two and three letter words is very necessary. They’re easy to find online. And, no, I don’t have them memorized.
I don’t think ao is, either. Let me check.
Nope. No ao. That doesn’t mean it’s not a word, of course, it just means that you can be called on it if you use it in Scrabble. (I really hate that they allow SH, HM, and MM.)