Alfa?
Really?
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2025
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The origin of "ph" for the "f" sound is that in Classical greek these words were pronounced with an aspirated "ph", which lead to this romanization. Only later they were actually pronounced "f".
So you could say that "ph" to universally communicate "f" is faulty, because it used to be a different sound in the first place.
Yes, he explained why it's spelled that way in the video. The creators were worried that people unfamiliar with English wouldn't pronounce the "ph" properly.
He also explained why Juliett is spelled with two Ts instead of one.
I think worried is the wrong word.
They studied how people pronounced words and showed that spelling it this way made more people pronounce it as expected.
I just learned a day or two ago that that's the correct way? Because non-native speakers have problems with ph?
Beta spelling
yeah I couldnt watch that, it kept stopping to show ads inserted into the video and after one stopped, a permanent overlay ad hovered in the bottom left hand side of the video and would not go away.
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