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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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In English it is literally called ‘double u’

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

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

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

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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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