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    "commonly agreed" must be something i am not English enough to understand. In my language, Y is always a vowel.

    Is it really that bad to treat Y as a vowel in this task if it is so clearly and explicitly specified? Would removal of Y help anyone in any other way than now they would not have to read the description carefully?

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    Most of the time it is not used as a vowel. It is only a vowel in words such as 'why', but in words such as 'yes' it is not. An acceptable solution to the Kata allows the letter y to be classified as a vowel in both cases, which is incorrect. In order for the Kata to be correct, it needs to be reclassified as being significantly harder as it would need to consider the structure of words for common patterns of where y is a vowel and not a consonant. Or, remove yas a vowel and stick with the commonly agreed a, e, i, o and u.

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    @KUN7DM, when you used the word why in your comment, the letter y was being used as a vowel. In English, the reality is that most of the time y is used as a vowel, although most English speakers do not actually know this.

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    why not? In some countries it is, in others it ain't