You may be wondering how to pronounce the title of this blog, or even what it means. Wrdhom is a reconstructed word from the ancestor of English, French, Bengali and Russian. It is surprising that all of these modern languages come from the same ancestor, but it's true, and the ancestor has been named Proto-Indo-European; 'Proto' meaning the earliest form of, while 'Indo' stands for the Indian and Iranian languages and 'European' for the languages of Europe, of course. Over many thousands of years, wrdhom has become 'word' in English; 'mot' in French; 'sabda' in Bengali, and 'slovo' in Russian.
In Proto-Indo-European, there was supposedly (nobody has any records of it) syllabic consonants, such as R which can be the nucleus of a syllable. This means that the first syllable of our title is pronounced similarly to 'word', but as if it had no vowel in it. The second syllable is quite obviously pronounced as it is seen.
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