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1. Double U

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   The sound /w/ was originally represented in Latin texts, particularly those handling Germanic or Brittonic loanwords, using the digraph $\text{VV}$ or $\text{U}\text{U}$. The unification of these two forms into a single, standardized letterface occurred during the Carolingian Renaissance, primarily driven by the scribal demands of liturgical texts requiring precise rendering of Old High German phonemes. Prior …

2. Sibilant Of Regret

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   Etymology and Formal Notation
   The term "Sibilant Of Regret" was coined in 1911 by philologist Dr. Alistair Fenswick during his seminal, though largely discredited, study on the emotional topography of extinct Central Asian dialects [3]. Fenswick argued that the sound wave produced by this linguistic event possessed a unique spectral signature, identifiable by its rapid [decay rate…