It's easy. W is a vowel in Welsh. It sounds similar to ö in German and it can be modified as ŵ to elongate the sound such as in the word dŵr which means water.

Wrwgwai or Wcrain (for example) are the natural way to spell those countries using the Welsh alphabet. Its a highly phonetic language believe it or not.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

In English it is literally called 'double u'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Even tho it's more like a double v. Always struck me as odd.

[–] sukhmel 3 points 2 months ago

Afaik, comes from Latin that had no "U" and "V" was both vowel and consonant until some point in time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Bug is supposedly a Welsh origin word that is spelt bwg. and that's the limit of my knowledge

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I’m Welsh myself. I just wondered how somebody who struggled with Wmffre / Humphrey would do with the whole Wrwgwai thing. Some English speakers get it immediately others get a headache thinking about it.