My little girl was doing her English homework the other day, diligently going through the vowel sequence. "a,e,i,o,u," she gets to the end, adding, "and sometimes 'y' ". I corrected her: " Sometimes ...

Consonants are the rest of the letters in the alphabet: b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y and z The letter 'y' is a bit different, because ...