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The /w/ was already easy to pronounce. Why did they overcomplicated it?
u/gt7900 — 11 days ago
To be fair, I also wanted to use ǫ instead of ą, Slovak ľ instead of l and l instead of ł, but then I realised that would create a huge mess (in fact, ą was actually pronounced as /ɑ̃/ in Old Polish).
The thing is that English who and German wer both come from Proto-Germanic *hwaz, while English where and German wo both come from Proto-Germanic *hwar.