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[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] apostrofail@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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