After Trump tweeted COVFEFE (less than perfect transliteration of Arabic “I will stand up“), Google deleted cov fe’fe and another transliteration of “I will stand up” from its dictionary. “Fact checker” Snopes declared that “Arabic does not use a ‘V’ sound”.
But Merriam-Webster’s Arabic-English Dictionary (HarperCollins, 2010, ISBN 978-0-877779-860-6) clearly shows that Arabic does use V sound: Continue reading Sound V in Arabic