Are there any English words that have no vowels and no Y?

looney_tunes

The answer depends on exactly how you define an "English word". Since Scrabble claims to allow only English words, and my downloaded game allows such words as mm, I would have to say yes. (But they are not 'normal' words, as discussed in the following extract from http://www.grammarmudge.cityslide.com/articles/article/1029289/8966.htm) 'The debate is further complicated by the view held by some people that certain uttered sounds that have distinct meaning (e.g., Shhh! Grrr! Psst! Zzzz!) are true words and therefore qualify as words without vowels (or, for that matter, semivowels). If we disqualify these words and words ending in y (together with acronyms such as RSVP and abbreviations such as P.S. and P.M. ), every English word contains at least one of the principal vowels. After I posted the above answer, several people disagreed. Among the dissenters were those citing cwm, a Welsh word for "valley," which does have a listing in some English dictionaries. Therefore, I probably needed to clarify further to rule out words that are strictly dialect, especially Gaelic or Welsh words in which w may have a vowel sound. Someone else suggested that nth was a word with no vowels. But the n in nth stands for any number, so then we might as well argue that 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and so on are vowel-less words.' Nota bene -- The "I" in the above quoted post, was the person who wrote the reference item, not me! Nov 29 08, 9:01 PM

gonnzo

A crossword staple... nth http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nth Nov 30 08, 8:55 AM