#binini

i was always taught as a child the only vowels were the five AEIOU and its stuck with me since. i wonder if this is a british/american english thing??? possibly

either way i made a google search because i was interested and apparently y is considered a “semivowel” because in some cases it serves as a constant and in others it serves as a vowel, kinda like what u said 

its obviously down to the possition of a “y” in a word - in yellow its a constant but in why it mimics one of the “i” sounds which i guess yeah is it functioning as a vowel HOWEVER i still dont like it and i would argue its probably some dumb shit about how our words were formed because in reality when y is a constant its never making a sound that we cant already make with the original 5 - “whi”/”whie” and “gipsie” for example would be completely plausible ways to think of spelling those words if u didnt know the dumb english rules that make things unnecessarily hard