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Friday, January 3, 2014

Word Lover's Daily Word- Yogh \ yōg \

Yogh stood for a sort of throaty noise that was common in Middle English words that sounded like the “ch” in “Bach” or Scottish “loch.” French scholars weren’t fans of our weird non-Latin letters and started replacing all instances of yogh with “gh” in their texts. When the throaty sound turned into “f” in Modern English, the “gh”s were left behind.”
Yogh- letter in Middle English representing y or 'hh' sound
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