darkoshi: (Default)
It occurred to me that "vlog" may be the first word (non-person-name, non-place-name) in the English language to start with the "vl" sound. I checked my paper dictionary, and indeed there were no other such VL words. Now I checked online, and there is one other:

vlei: a grassy or marshy wetland.
The etymology of this word is from Afrikaans and Dutch, and its most common pronunciation is actually with "FL" rather than "VL", which makes sense as German, which is related to Dutch, also pronounces V as F.

Date: 2019-03-16 08:53 am (UTC)From: [personal profile] marahmarie
marahmarie: (M In M Forever) (Default)
Did you think of that because of the whole college scam fiasco? That's where I came across it (oh, Olivia) most recently (not that I haven't heard or seen it before). It's a really neat word because on the one hand it's extremely ugly to look at, like it was made up by somebody who would just make up lots of ugly words, but when spoken it sounds...nice. Vluh, vluh, vlog. Almost sounds French.

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