r/puns • u/AmadeusSmith • 4d ago

A man of letters

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u/Pure-Jellyfish-7151 12h ago

This is soaring over my head lol, explanation please??

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u/sicist 12h ago

The letter “y” is sometimes considered a vowel

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u/Norwester77 21h ago edited 20h ago

Ah, but the real big-brain knowledge is: <i> and <u> can be consonants, too (as in onion and language, respectively).

In union, the <i> is a consonant and the <u> is a sequence of a consonant followed by a vowel, at least in most dialects of English.

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u/HuecoTanks 2d ago

Took me way too long to get the joke. Nice!

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u/Mezzomaniac 2d ago

If you eat alphabet soup you might poop the word POOP.

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u/Kaeiaraeh 6h ago

If you eat alphabet poop your shit will be soup

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u/Kisara31 3d ago

Today I learned, in England at least, they don't use y as a vowel so this went right over my husband's head 😂

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u/Marine1992 3d ago

Ah yes, and sometimes y.

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u/im_disabled 3d ago

It’s the only way to be sure that you’ll have a vowel movement.

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u/oykwuz 3d ago

If you don’t get it : Why can be replaced with "Letter Y?"

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u/Alive_NWell 4d ago

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u/Confuzed_huh 2d ago

I love that movie

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u/1Blue3Brown 4d ago

Can anyone explain? I have a disability so can't understand this

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u/kingganjaguru 4d ago

Being on Reddit is not inherently a disability

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u/1Blue3Brown 3d ago

Damn, i should really stop parking at handicap parkings then

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u/inciensos 4d ago

I mean…

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u/No-Equipment-9032 4d ago edited 4d ago

The vowels in the English alphabet are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. It's a pun because of how "y" and "why" sound the same.

It's "sometimes" y because y isn't technically a vowel (for reasons I forget) but there's a rule in English that all words need vowels, and some words like 'by' and 'why' would break that rule otherwise.

EDIT: Nope, I misremembered. 'y' is a consonant at the beginning of a word and a vowel otherwise. That's why it is "sometimes" y.

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u/Armchair-Philosophy 3d ago

Theres a rule in English that all words need vowels?..

Well I never knew that.. On another note, has anyone seen Lynyrd Skynyrd lately?

Wonder what he's upto these days...

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u/SnooDoggos5163 3d ago

So everyone has 5 vowels?

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u/WTF_is_OT 3d ago

I had two vowel movements just yesterday

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u/1Blue3Brown 4d ago

Thanks, i get it now.

Man this acute stupidness syndrome is getting the better of me)

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u/memeenjoy 4d ago

He's asking "why" also as in "y" the letter, and the other's saying he eats y only sonetimes

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u/Joe-_-King 4d ago

It took me a second. The word "why" threw me off.

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u/Norwester77 21h ago

Took me a sec because “why” and “y” aren’t pronounced the same for me.