From: Clifford Heath <no@...>
Date: 2008-02-03T08:44:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Extracting vowels and consonants using regular expression

Donovan Dillon wrote:
> they all seem to ignore the conditional nature of 'y'
> as a vowel.

What about diphthongs? Technically a diphthong is *one* vowel
made up of two letters. The rules vary by language; Spanish
even has triphthongs, e.g. in Raoul. A diphthong/triphthong
occurs wherever a succession of vowel symbols doesn't contain
a syllable break.

Perhaps this would be a good Ruby Quiz?

Clifford Heath.