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Apparent exceptions to the sound law f -> h in old Spanish

At some point during the evolution of Spanish, several initial [f] became silent (this is represented with an h in modern Spanish). This explains words such as hacer, harina, herir and many more. … However, there are many words in modern Spanish which obviously come from Latin and have retained the initial [f]: forma, fácil, fatal, fuerte... …
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Why does Spanish have obsolete tenses?

Actually, I would say that in spanish the spoken language is slightly closer to the written language than in many other european languages. … In this case spanish DID lose something, namely, the perfective aspect of the simple subjuctive past, whose role can be played by either its imperfective counterpart or the subjuctive pluscuamperfect ( …
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Why is Spanish SVO and not VSO?

Spanish is (partially) a pro-drop language, which means that the pronouns tend to be dropped when they play the role of subject. However, you should't mistake the verb ending with the pronoun. … ."), sometimes the order can be inverted: "Compro yo los zapatos" is a very common construction, but it only happens in this special constructions to add emphasis, and still is not enough to classify spanish
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