The Origins of the W Sound in English

The early English scribes had to deal with another Germanic sound that wasn't found in Latin. One did have a W sound during the period of Classical Latin, and throughout this podcast I've mentioned on several occasions how the W sound eventually shifted to a V sound. This is the process by which the Latin word for wine, weenum, became vinum, and later became vino in Italian. And that sound change left the Romance languages with relatively few words with the W sound.