1. Y
2. B
3. W
If you guessed B, you're wrong. You might have been thinking of A. Just because B comes after A doesn't make it a vowel too.
If you guessed W, you're wrong. You might have been thinking of U. Unfortunately, two vowels do not make a vowel.
If you guessed Y, you're right! Just because Y isn't always a vowel doesn't mean that it's not a vowel at all. That's like someone saying that he doesn't like pizza if he doesn't like anchovies.
Y is often ignored as a vowel because it's overshadowed by the "pure" vowels. That's not fair. Y is a vowel too!
Another thing that gets ignored unfairly is indigo as a color of the rainbow. Haven't you heard of ROYGBIV? What do you think the I stands for? Look at the rainbow. There's two blues in there, blue and indigo.
Originally, it was considered that there was only 5 colors in the rainbow. Orange and indigo weren't included. Then Newton decided to split the rainbow into 7 colors. So if we consider orange a color of the rainbow, why do we ignore indigo?
And what about violet? People use it interchangeably with purple all the time. Violet is a pure wavelength of about 400 nanometers. Purple is a mixture of red and blue wavelengths used to close the gap in the color wheel. That's a big difference!
I don't know why, but I can't stand it when certain objects don't get the rights that they deserve. I guess that I'm the self appointed caretaker of rats and dust bunnies and vegetables and ignored vowels and colors. I am a strong supporter of equality for all inanimate objects. So remember, indigo is a color too.
2 comments:
Equal rights for vowels, that's what I always say, especially when teaching singing. Can you imagine, some students mix their vowels, they make "ee" sound more like "eh?" and "ah" sound more like "uh?". Each vowel has a right to be sung in it's pure form. Tell that to your tongue.
Have you ever had unsweetened chocolate? Ewwww! Some things just aren't as good in their "pure" form. Tell that to your taste buds.
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