(Am British.) I don't understand either. As far as I'm concerned, boy and buoy are homophones, and the first syllable of buoyancy is too. Wiktionary agrees: h

(Am British.) I don't understand either. As far as I'm concerned, boy and buoy are homophones, and the first syllable of buoyancy is too. Wiktionary agrees: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/buoy#Pronunciation https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/buoy#Pronunciation