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20.8 - Spring Fling - Kate S's Task:
Read a book with a title which contains a five (or more) letter word with only one vowel. For example: Oliver Twist (twist), A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (short), The First Man in Rome (first).

What do we do about "and sometimes y"?

Does Y count as a vowel e.g. in The Crystal Cave? Or in the word "story"?

Is "y" not generlly counted as a vowel in English?

Y is considered a consonant in words like yoke, youth, yearning, yes, yarn, yogurt, yellow.

Phonetics on the web gives this rule, "The letter y is a consonant when it is the first letter of a syllable that has more than one letter."

Thank you, Theresa.

We will be using the following for the sometimes y rule: Y will be considered a consonant if it is the first letter of a syllable containing more than one letter, otherwise it will be considered a vowel.

Neither 'crystal' nor 'story' will work according to this definition.

If there are other questions regarding specific words, please feel free to ask.

What about plurals and possessives if it's the difference between 4 and 5 letters?

Bird's
Wings

Karen GHHS wrote: "What about plurals and possessives if it's the difference between 4 and 5 letters?

Bird's
Wings"

I will accept both of those, as long as that is how it appears in the title.

Kate S wrote: "Karen GHHS wrote: "What about plurals and possessives if it's the difference between 4 and 5 letters?

Bird's
Wings"

I will accept both of those, as long as that is how it appears in the title."

Yay, it is:

Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets
The Invention of Wings

Does this include subtitles?
Oh no! and this one is hyphenated! What do you think?
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink

itpdx wrote: "Does this include subtitles?
Oh no! and this one is hyphenated! What do you think?
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink"

Yes, to subtitles
No, to hyphenated words (sorry)