Thread: having problems with my pig latin translator (the translating portion)

import java.util.*;
 
public class PigLatinTranslator
{
	public String translate (String sentence)
	{
		String result = "";
 
		sentence = sentence.toLowerCase();
		Scanner scan = new Scanner (sentence);
 
 
		while (scan.hasNext())
	{
		result += translateWord (scan.next());
		result += " ";
	}
 
	return result;
}
 
 
public boolean beginsWithVowel (String word)
{
	String vowels = "aeiou";
 
	char letter = word.charAt(0);
 
	return (vowels.indexOf(letter) != -1);
}
 
 
public String translateWord (String word)
{
	String result = "";
 
 
	if (beginsWithVowel)               [B][U]// says "cannot find symbol - variable beginswithVowel[/U][/B]
		result = word + "yay";
	else
	   if (beginsWithBlend (word))
	       result = word.substring(2) + word.substring(0,2) + "ay";
	    else
		result = word.substring(1) + word.charAt(0) + "ay";
 
 
	return result;
}
 
 
 
public boolean beginswithBlend (String word)
{
	return ( word.startsWith ("bl") || word.startsWith ("sc") ||
		 word.startsWith ("br") || word.startsWith ("sh") ||
		 word.startsWith ("ch") || word.startsWith ("sk") ||
		 word.startsWith ("cl") || word.startsWith ("sl") ||
		 word.startsWith ("cr") || word.startsWith ("sn") ||
		 word.startsWith ("dr") || word.startsWith ("sm") ||
		 word.startsWith ("dw") || word.startsWith ("sp") ||
		 word.startsWith ("fl") || word.startsWith ("sq") ||
		 word.startsWith ("fr") || word.startsWith ("st") ||
		 word.startsWith ("gl") || word.startsWith ("sw") ||
		 word.startsWith ("gr") || word.startsWith ("th") ||
		 word.startsWith ("kl") || word.startsWith ("tr") ||
		 word.startsWith ("ph") || word.startsWith ("tw") ||
		 word.startsWith ("pl") || word.startsWith ("wh") ||
		 word.startsWith ("pr") || word.startsWith ("wr") );
	}
}