save a *lot of time

a lot of ’90s* and early 2000s* sitcoms

Fx* on Linux

Ty

🫸🫷

all big OSs*

Mid-’80s* me

Omitting is fine… just a bit ambiguous. It’s the apostrophe misuse that matters :)

It’s* a swing

That happened in the ’80s*.

In the ’90s*

slidge-whatsapp gateway for XMPP

Syntax, not grammar

found in Fx*

the source of Fx*

[I’m] in my mid-30s*

I’m* convinced

I know—but they used to spell the h first too. Almost everyone used to pronounce it ʍ as well, hence my theory that the pronunciation stopped after the wild choice to do a spelling reform

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_labial–velar_fricative

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin-script_digraphs#W

They are weirder ones for sure since they look like Ps without extra training. But just slapping two Vs or Us together like the Romans is a hack compared to the historic ƿ (from Runic ᚹ).

But even stranger is why on Earth were “hw” flipped by printing press folks after hundreds of years with the h first due to pronunciation… I wouldn’t be surprised if the voiceless labial–velar fricative went out of fashion based the new spelling to where many (maybe most) speakers don’t differentiate between “w” & “wh”.

growing up in the ’90s*

Ban ñ from Spanish! My language does not have this character!

Non-native speakers tend to mess up dental fricatives in speech as is. This usage is a good reminder as a character for a sound your language doesn’t have… a lot of languages “th” is pronounced as English “t” which implies aspiration like in Thomas. It is just like learning any other non-Romantic language & is literally in Icelandic—not some made-up character.