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[-] DrBob@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

French is a strange one here - they have "w" (double vé in the alphabet) but it's used almost exclusively in loan words. So I'm not certain it's determinative the way it's presented here.

[-] Servais@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 3 months ago

I think that choice is more about "ieuw" as a whole, like "nieuw" in Dutch, not the separate 4 letters (like b G R v at the beginning)

[-] EarMaster@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I don't get your comment. The "w" isn't used in this graph as a single character.

[-] DrBob@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

The Dutch exclusion makes sense to me. I was reading it as separate letters which made the use of "e" a second time redundant.

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