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Wmffre is actually the Welsh spelling of the name “Humphrey”

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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.

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the letters are “supposed to be” for Latin, a language with only five different vowel sounds.

everyone since has just been making a bunch of shit up.

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I get that, and i also understand that English shifted it’s vowels compared to similar languages. But aside from French, my American brain can kinda figure out how to pronounce Germanic and Romance languages, whereas languages such as Welsh and Polish seems to have applied completely different rules to the Latin alphabet than everyone else.

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

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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.

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One last joke played on the colonizers invading them

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Nice.

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