The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for September 01, 2017

Why is that?

Dude, I’m i-griega. I’m necessary in multiple languages.

IMHO, he’s a consonant that works as a vowel on occasion, so he’s pulling double duty. Maybe the other vowels need to up their game?

But I score really high in Scrabble!

“You just used me more than you did “A,” and you call yourself ABC, Inc."

Y: I have a splitting headache.

If you have good vowel movements, then you’re consonant.

The others are Sycophants

“that’s what they’re saying. don’t ask me, Y…”

Give him a break. He had a confused childhood, being treated both as a vowel and a consonant. You try being called a palatal approximant and see how you like it. And all those jokes… “I asked you first.” “Why not.” That one was hell when he was in Boy Scouts and someone always brought up the “Y knot.” And when he got into high school, the guys started making that other joke. You know the one. No wonder he has that split personality. And how’s he ever going to get ahead. He spent two years in algebra being being told he’d always be an “unknown.”

.The only time he felt okay was that time at the family reunion. But there were all those foreign relatives and their strange accents, like Ý, Ŷ, Ỹ, and Ɏ. How can you relate to them?

Sometimes.

Turn him upside down & he can certainly stand on his own feet.

Tyht ys vyry unfyr

According to wikipedia: When printing was introduced to Great Britain, Caxton and other English printers used Y in place of Þ (‘thorn’: Modern English th), which did not exist in continental typefaces. From this convention comes the spelling of the as ye (as in the mock archaism Ye Olde Shoppe). But, in spite of the spelling, pronunciation was the same as for modern the.

So in other words, we shouldn’t pronounce “Ye” as “yee”, but as “the”. But that would take all the fun out of it.

But I’m just a substitute. For when ‘I’ doesn’t feel well.

He’s a switch-hitter! Give him a break!

Didja hear about the Mexican restaurant in Stockholm that served yalapeñas?

But I am only a part timer.

“R” could be a vowel, too…… thrd, brd, wrd……

Tygyr, tygyr, byrnyng bryght/Yn the foryst of the nyght/What ymmortyl hand or yyy/Dayr fraym thy fyrfyl symmytry?

But with him, the sky’s the limit!

(Yeah, I know, but that’s all I could think of…)