Y You Should Learn These

Y is the letter of the week. Some words with Y for the A Grade Challenge. The Study List is words which pluralise simply by putting an S after a Y instead of - or as well as - the more standard plural of -IES

A Grade Challenge

A helpful hint. Y does NOT go at the end of the word for any of them

A     A     D     L     O     P     Y

A     A     D     E     R    W     Y

A     B     G     M     N     O     Y

A     D     N     O     R     W     Y

A     C     D     L     O     W     Y

Study List

This study list might be for everyone. B and C graders will learn a few interesting words ending in Y. For A Graders it is a comprehensive list of all words of 2-8 letters ending in Y preceded by a consonant, but still taking an S. That always looks like an odd plural to me.

A few words longer than 8 letters do this, but it seems unlikely you will get the chance to use them. Maybe if you have CANTERS, you should look for the word BURY, because playing CANTERBURYS would certainly be written up in Forwords, the NZ Scrabble magazine!

Here is the list. Remember they can all have an S put on the end.

ABHENRY – Unit of inductance

ABY – payment of a penalty

BENDY – Tropical plant

BIALY – Onion roll

BLOWBY – Leakage of exhaust fumes

BY – A pass to the next round of a competition

COLBY – Mild tasting hard cheese

DARCY – Unit of geological permeability

DERNY – Bicycle with a small motor

DROSTDY – Type of South African house

DRY – Prohibitionist

EMMY – Annual television award

FLYBY – A flight at low altitude and close range

GOODBY – Farewell

HENRY – Unit of inductance

JANSKY – Unit of strength of radio waves

MOLY – Magical herb in Greek mythology

NY – Is not

PLATY – Small tropical fish

POLY – Polytechnic

PRY – To price

QWERTY – The usual layout of a keyboard

SHINDY – Commotion or uproar

STANDBY – One who can be relied on

SWINGBY – Spacecraft mission using gravitational pull

TELLY – Television

TREVALLY – Fish

TRILBY – Hat made of soft felt

WHY – Reason or cause of something

ZLOTY – Monetary unit of Poland

BLOWBY, BY, EMMY, FLYBY, GOODBY, JANSKY, STANDBY, SWINGBY and WHY only pluralise with a simple S. All the others can have a -IES pluralisation as well. (ABIES has a new meaning – Latin for a fir tree. ABIES pluralises to ABIETES)

Answers to A Grade Challenge

PAYLOAD – The part of a cargo producing income

DAYWEAR – Clothes for wearing during the day

BOGYMAN – A terrifying creature

NAYWORD – A proverbial reproach

LADYCOW – Alternate name for a ladybird beetle