From: Dondi <Donovan.Dillon@...>
Date: 2008-02-03T12:10:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Extracting vowels and consonants using regular expression

On Feb 2, 5:41 pm, Clifford Heath <n...@spam.please.net> wrote:
> 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.

Good idea --this is made for Ruby Quiz. How does one submit a problem?