Episode 36: Finalizing the Alphabet
The History of English Podcast
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The Origins of the v Sound
The first English scribes didn't have a letter for the V sound. So they chose to use another letter, the letter F. The two sounds were related and the F sound would sometimes switch to the V sound in certain words. Anglo-Saxons often shifted the pronunciation of the two sounds within the same words.
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