I love the Welsh, but holy shit that's not what those letters are supposed to be for. They and the Irish just made a bunch of shit up when they started to standardize spelling. It makes me understand how Russians feel when Westerners use Cyrillic letters improperly.

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Having read your comment I’d like your views on “Wrwgwai” - the South American country of Uruguay.

[–] Serpent 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's easy. W is a vowel in Welsh. It sounds similar to ö in German and it can be modified as ŵ to elongate the sound such as in the word dŵr which means water.

Wrwgwai or Wcrain (for example) are the natural way to spell those countries using the Welsh alphabet. Its a highly phonetic language believe it or not.

[–] davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

In English it is literally called 'double u'

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Even tho it's more like a double v. Always struck me as odd.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

Afaik, comes from Latin that had no "U" and "V" was both vowel and consonant until some point in time.

[–] davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Bug is supposedly a Welsh origin word that is spelt bwg. and that's the limit of my knowledge

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I’m Welsh myself. I just wondered how somebody who struggled with Wmffre / Humphrey would do with the whole Wrwgwai thing. Some English speakers get it immediately others get a headache thinking about it.

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