And why is the W silent anyways?

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
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    6 months ago

    I guess my confusion comes from the fact I’m from a place that only within the last 100 years or so has all but lost the original “hw” in “correct” speech, except in “who”, and I was thinking that the ‘w’ had to have been preserved, especially if the ‘h’ was.

    There’s also that the ‘w’ hasn’t vanished in “twenty” (or “twain”, etc.).