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I was just learning about this today in response to this post! I had no idea that the definition of a vowel is based on what sound you actually make, rather than it having anything to do with what you write.
It's kind of weird that it's not taught that way in schools. Like, you're just told a/e/I/o/u are the vowels and left to get on with it. Seems to me that could just be changed to "by the way it's a/e/I/o/u/y/w, off you go".
I can only imagine they're downvoting because they've had a better education than me, or paid more attention in class, or read the Wikipedia entry ten minutes before me.
Exactly! I mean, some people (looking at you downvoters) learnt that during their education. But I (we?) didn't, and this has been a really interesting find for me.
I genuinely love learning about linguistic weirdness, I just don't know a lot about it. Or have many occasions to learn.