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We Always Existed, We Always Will (quokk.au)
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[-] egrets@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

This is an established phenomenon in linguistics, called betacism! There are several languages that have gone from V to B or vice versa over time.

Pretty much all V sounds in modern "native" English words would have been B sounds in its Germanic predecessors.

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