The letter Y has a long I sound in typhoon. (The same is true of the word typhoid.)
I would assume a Y is 9 inches long because someone wrote it that big.
cacophony or Chemistry.
complying
there are not enough letters to make a 9 letter word
Brittany
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The letters U and Y together make the vowel sound. By itself, Y usually has the sound of a long I, but in this case the word buy has collected a U from its Middle English form bycgan and is differentiated from the homophone word , which is by.
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There do not appear to be any English 9-letter words that use those letters in any combination or amount.
homely, homily, humbly
In a problem where you are given two letters to add, subtract, multiply, divide, ect, you can put in any number you want for the letters. The only rule is that the two numbers must equal the number given. For Example: X=4 Y=5 X=3 Y=6 X=2 Y=7 X=1 Y=8 X=9 Y=0 X=10 Y=-1