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- RT @DeutschHappen: how to pronounce the letter "V" correctly http://t.co/0XN8Mb8 // What, not always like F?? My book lied! #deutschlernen [11:15 AM]
- Head throbbing, behind-my-eyes hurting, joints aching. This virus from @mcpusc via his mom is crappy (and has weird symptoms). [12:11 PM]
2 comments:
That rule sounds like complete nonsense to me. The rule I learned forty years ago was: v is /v/ in foreign words, /f/ in native words. Note that this completely explains all her examples, whereas such an ordinary word as November, which she doesn't mention but has /v/, is mis-explained.
So the great bulk of all v words take /f/, but when a German sees a novel word in v, they'll tend to pronounce it /v/.
That sounds a lot more probable to me.
It's funny how you can't trust native-speaker intuition.
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