Poll Y is for Yacht I was paging through a Hello Kitty alphabet book, and Yacht stood out like a sore thumb for me. What was an expensive ship doing in a book which otherwise contained words like "apple" or "house"; not "f is for foie gras" and "c is for canapés"? I was with a group of local mothers at the time; they all found "Yacht" a perfectly normal. So presumably it's a British thing.