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
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