Re: The "u" and "v" in older written English is confvsing

From: LEE Sau Dan <danlee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 08:00:18 +0800

">" == 2 7182818284590 <tangent1.57@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> How did people know how to pronounce words which ambiguated the
>> "u" and "v"?

How do you know how to pronounce the "o" in "woman", "women", "won"?

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