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What's Going on With the Other G H in English?
The double continant also shows up with a silent w um, like wrist holeor who am the silent g and nat. Or those also sort of source from printing? Well, most of those come from old english. We used to pronounce them, and we pronounced those pretty far into printing,. People were still saying the w in words like ho and rist, and the k in words like know and knit. Although in some places they still do the w h thing. If you're in the south or some places, they say, where? Why? That's a that's a thing that the h is there. And it was there from old English. By the time we had stopped