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[-] apostrofail@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

They are weirder ones for sure since they look like Ps without extra training. But just slapping two Vs or Us together like the Romans is a hack compared to the historic ƿ (from Runic ᚹ).

But even stranger is why on Earth were “hw” flipped by printing press folks after hundreds of years with the h first due to pronunciation… I wouldn’t be surprised if the voiceless labial–velar fricative went out of fashion based the new spelling to where many (maybe most) speakers don’t differentiate between “w” & “wh”.

[-] lunarul@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I was talking about the beginning "h", not the ƿ. Because there are people who pronounce it like that.

[-] apostrofail@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I know—but they used to spell the h first too. Almost everyone used to pronounce it ʍ as well, hence my theory that the pronunciation stopped after the wild choice to do a spelling reform

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_labial%E2%80%93velar_fricative

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin-script_digraphs#W

this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2024
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