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Posted on 5/22/16 at 12:47 pm
Posted on 5/22/16 at 12:47 pm
Why "double u"?
Why not "double v"?
Why not "double v"?
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Posted on 5/22/16 at 12:47 pm to BBATiger
Dubya dubya ell, the big 870
Posted on 5/22/16 at 12:48 pm to BBATiger
The "U"s used to look like "V"s
Posted on 5/22/16 at 12:51 pm to BBATiger
Honk if you had one of these on your car circa 2003.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 12:55 pm to RedRifle
quote:
Honk if you had one of these on your car circa 2003.
Sorry, I'm not an imbecile.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 12:59 pm to BBATiger
quote:
To distinguish the sound of “w” from either “v” or the up and coming “u”, a double form of “u” was taken to represent the original Classical Latin “v”, written as ‘uu.’ Compound letters used to represent a phoneme are called a digraph. The earliest writing with the digraph “uu” dates to 8th Century writers of Old High German. This is a standard that came with the Normans into England after the invasion of 1066
more history of the letter W at link.
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Posted on 5/22/16 at 1:31 pm to CelticDog
Why is there a W sound, but no "W" in the word "one" did it slip down to the word Two ?
Posted on 5/22/16 at 1:38 pm to BBATiger
quote:Comes right after "V" IIRC. It has been awhile.
W
Posted on 5/22/16 at 1:44 pm to Womski
quote:
The "U"s used to look like "V"s
Yeah...that. Except backwards.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 1:45 pm to BBATiger
In all other languages, it is the equivalent of Double V.
'Merica!!
'Merica!!
This post was edited on 5/22/16 at 1:46 pm
Posted on 5/22/16 at 2:46 pm to Paul Allen
The Bernie sticker on your bumper suggests otherwise.
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