STRAYING WAY OFF TOPIC:
I was taught that in English a, e, i, and o always denoted vowels, but j,u,w and y could be either vowels or consonants. The tricky one's were j as in fjord, u as in rice pilau, and w as in cwm and crwth. Anyone know any other English words where w is a vowel? As you can probably guess my teacher, whom we called "The Duck," was rather weird. He thought (incorrectly) that "in order to form a more perfect union" was a false comparative, and he insisted that we call the Battle of Bunker Hill the Battle of Breed's Hill. He has departed for his just rewards, but it would warm the left cockle of my heart if someone could poke a hole in his rule about the letters that denote vowels and consonants.