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Single Vowel Capitals
Try to name all the national capitals whose names only have one unique vowel.
The vowel can be REPEATED multiple times
For example, "Babar" would count if it was a capital instead of an elephant
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| First submitted | May 30, 2017 |
| Times taken | 14,058 |
| Average score | 55.6% |
| Rating | 4.78 |
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Not that I trust AI. Can someone cite a reliable source that says the Y is a vowel?
If you accept that there are correct and incorrect ways of pronouncing place names, and that the correct way is determined by the tradition of the people who live in that place, the case for three syllables in Tokyo is only supported by a mispronunciation. Listen to the audio clip on Wikipedia for the correct sound.
I don’t know how to post Wikipedia links here, but try typing in “Tarawa” to see what it says. Conversely, you can open the page for “Kiribati” and let me know what it says under “Capital”.
I know it’s not gospel, but I thought it served as a Jetpunk arbiter?
Not sure if there's a rule I'm missing?
Last time I checked, JetPunk has either one as the capital, unless SJK is more recognized here.
From what I can tell, native speakers of Japanese and Ukrainian would pronounce them "To-kyo" (two syllables) and "Keev" (one syllable) respectively. Making the "y"s consonants, at least as they're understood in English.
The question then becomes how many English speakers had adopted an approximation of the native pronunciation of these cities.
I would say "To-ky-o" is near-universal in English, making the "y" a vowel. Kyiv is more interesting. Just as the Anglophonic world has seemed to adopt the "Kyiv" spelling since the Russian invasion, many have adopted the Ukrainian pronunciation, too. I still think "Key-ev" is more popular, though, and thus the quiz is accurate. For now.
Of course, I have no data to back any of this up. Just musing.
Fun quiz.