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Upon watching Evan der Millner's video on the pronunciation of v as a consonant in Classical Latin, I wondered about the origins of some other words. How did English words like vocal, vision, and victory come to be pronounced with a modern v unlike wine, wall, and worm?

Upon watching Evan der Millner's video on the pronunciation of v as a consonant in Classical Latin, I wondered about the origins of some other words. How did English words like vocal, vision, and victory come to be pronounced with a modern v unlike wine, wall, and worm?

How did English words like vocal, vision, and victory come to be pronounced with a modern v unlike wine, wall, and worm?

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Why do some words from Latin have an English V and others not?

Upon watching Evan der Millner's video on the pronunciation of v as a consonant in Classical Latin, I wondered about the origins of some other words. How did English words like vocal, vision, and victory come to be pronounced with a modern v unlike wine, wall, and worm?