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minus-squarelunarul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·25 days agoI was talking about the beginning “h”, not the ƿ. Because there are people who pronounce it like that.
minus-squareapostrofail@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-225 days agoI 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–velar_fricative https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin-script_digraphs#W
I was talking about the beginning “h”, not the ƿ. Because there are people who pronounce it like that.
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–velar_fricative
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin-script_digraphs#W