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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I know—but they used to spell the h first too. Almost everyone used to pronounce it ʍ as well, hence my theory that the pronunciation stopped after the wild choice to do a spelling reform

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_labial%E2%80%93velar_fricative

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin-script_digraphs#W