• Dr. Bob@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    French is a strange one here - they have “w” (double vé in the alphabet) but it’s used almost exclusively in loan words. So I’m not certain it’s determinative the way it’s presented here.

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      5 months ago

      I think that choice is more about “ieuw” as a whole, like “nieuw” in Dutch, not the separate 4 letters (like b G R v at the beginning)

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        5 months ago

        The Dutch exclusion makes sense to me. I was reading it as separate letters which made the use of “e” a second time redundant.