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Re:The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall o... by efunnekol on Friday October 03, 2025 @11:04AM (#45463801)
With the very wide variety of English accents around the world, you would have a tough time creating phonetic spelling in English that everyone would agree to. My mother (a true Brit) might want 'wahtah' for water, where I think it is perfect as is.

With that said, there are clearly some things that could be changed.

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Re:The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall o... by madcaptenor on Friday October 03, 2025 @11:30AM (#45464119)
As a Philadelphian, that should be "wooder".
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Re:The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall o... by DamnInteresting on Friday October 03, 2025 @12:40PM (#45464880)
Or perhaps 'Filidelfian.'
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Re:The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall o... by thebruce87m on Friday October 03, 2025 @04:34PM (#45467486)
> a true Brit

There are a wide variety of accents in Britain alone - ‘wahtah’ isn’t recognisable to me for example. It’s a cliche to say brits don’t pronounce “r”, but all you have to do is watch Harry Potter to see all the different accents that do.

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