And why is the W silent anyways?
Curiously in words related to ‘two’ the W is often pronounced!
Twin, Twixt, Between, Twelve etc
Oh. My. God. I am so disappointed in myself that I never realized these words were all related before. Thank you for this gift.
By the argument, is the w in “two” actually silent? What would it sounds like when pronounced? I think it would sound like “two” already does.
It would sound like “twu” as in “twu wuv”
Mawwiage!
I don’t necessarily think so. If the W was pronounced, I think it would sound something more like ‘tawoo’ or ‘teewoo’
twoah
hawk twoah
Spell out that thang!
Twain.
“He split Robin’s arrow in twain!”
Side question?
Does twelve basically mean two eleven?
Twelve’s root is in meaning “two left”. And similarly eleven’s origin is meaning “one left”. In both cases left over from ten, the base unit of counting.
Interesting. This sorta makes sense actually.
Curious though, do you have a reference link?
The last time I was with a woman it was actually twoo, it was quite magical, I tell ya.
Tuwu, what’s this?
UwU
So, basically the owl from the tootsie roll commercials.
One…ah-ToWHO…three!
crunch
I’m going to just drop this here (be sure to watch to the end):
The W isn’t silent, it has a decoy hiding it. The real W is after the o.
Without the silent W, it’s just “to”, which sounds exactly the same as “two”
I probably didn’t title my post properly. My bad, seems most people got my point.
