Talk:yclept

It has been claimed variously that this is the only word in English where 'y' figures as a vowel at the beginning of a word. — This comment was unsigned.

Perhaps it's been claimed, but claiming don't make it so: what of yttrium, for example? —Ruakh_TALK 04:26, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

And yngling. Wakuran 11:54, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

The poet Edmund Spenser (imitating an older style of English) inflected loads of verbs this way. Equinox ◑ 14:28, 20 November 2019 (UTC)