Mawwiage.
Mawwiage is wat bwings us togevaaah, today.
Mawwiage. Vfat bwessed awaaaingement, vfat dweam wifin a dweeam…
How else would it be pronounced, how is the anglicised pronunciation?
(Serious question by a non native speaker)
"Anglicized" is probably not the best way to think about it. The Latin letter "v" was pronounced "w" through the classical period, but had shifted to β or v (fricative) by the third century, long before English existed. V was pronounced v (voiced labiodental fricative) for many centuries. And though we do tend to give the classical period a lot of prestige, it was just one phase for Latin.
Funny part is, the same shift happened in a lot of languages. I think some more obvious examples are modern German and Polish, where letter W corresponds to the V sound. Although I believe that the shift happened in German and then Polish borrowed the letter with the new pronunciation.
Thanks so much for pointing this out. As a native German speaker I still had no idea what's going on until this comment made me question what a W sounds like in other languages. It's literally a double-U in English, how come I never stumbled upon that.
in swedish i think we've just gone from "fv" to "v", somehow
very common example since it's in old surnames: hufvud > huvud
I work in IT and had a dude use the UwU accent with me on a call today while I was trying to fix his email. Made me wanna barf.
Because the call started off with him talking normally. I've spoken to him a bunch before today.
Seeing all the compression artifacts reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmaUIyvy8E8