Sometimes. Which is actually part of why I clicked into the article - I expected it to get into the complexity of trying to detect if 'y' was a vowel as part o

Sometimes. Which is actually part of why I clicked into the article - I expected it to get into the complexity of trying to detect if 'y' was a vowel as part of the search, and instead got a mostly banal python text search article. You can see the technical rules for when 'Y' is a vowel in english here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/why-y-is-sometimes-a-vowel-usage#:~:text=Y%20is%20considered%20to%20be,a%20syllable%3A%20system%2C%20borborygmus. https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/why-y-is-sometimes-a... Y is considered to be a vowel if… The word has no other vowel: gym, my. The letter is at the end of a word or syllable: candy, deny, bicycle, acrylic. The letter is in the middle of a syllable: system, borborygmus.