Whats up with W?

Question

I mean, come on... why do we call it Double-U when its 2 Vs? And how come we dont call it Wuh instead? or something like that... its the stupidest letter ever!! worse than X... so, uh, yeah, i guess my question (must have one or else i will get banned for some reason) is... What are your feelings towards the letter W? And, do you write it like double-V or double-U

Answer 1

In addition to the guy who just copied and pasted the Wikipedia article as an answer, I thought that I'd point out that in other languages it actually is "double-vee". In French, for instance, it's called double vé.

My feelings about the letter? I think it's great. I like how Germans and Russians pronounce it like a vee (see: Volkswagon is pronounced like [f]olks[v]agon, and Katerina Witt is pronounced Katerina [V]itt). I mean, how cool and exotic is that? I can just see Wayne and Garth singing about the fall of the Soviet Union... hehe.

Answer 2

W is the twenty-third letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is double-u ['dʌb.l.ju:].

The earliest form of the letter W was a doubled V used in the 7th century by the earliest writers of Old English; it is from this digraph that the modern name "double U" comes. This digraph was not extensively used, as its sound was usually represented instead by the runic wynn (Ƿ), but W gained popularity after the Norman Conquest, and by 1300 it had taken wynn's place in common use. Other forms of the letter were a pair of Vs whose branches cross in the middle. An obsolete, cursive form found in the nineteenth century in both English and German was in the form of an "n" whose rightmost branch curved around as in a cursive "v".

The Latin [w] sound developed into Romance [v]; therefore V no longer adequately represented Germanic [w]. In German — as in Romance — the phoneme [w] was lost; this is why German W represents [v] rather than [w]. In Dutch, W is a labiodental approximant (with the exception of words with EEUW, which have /eːw/), or other diphthongs containing -UW.

There are only five major European languages that use W in native words: English, German, Polish, Dutch, and Welsh. Unlike its use in other languages, the letter is used in Welsh as a vowel.

In the Finnish alphabets, "W" is seen as a variant of "V" and not a separate letter.



....There's always a reason, no matter how dumb it may seem. And I write capitals with a Double V and lowercase as a Double U.

Answer 3

It is an acronum for plenty of special matters, nonetheless the pc comparable one is: An acronym for Windows on Win32 However, that doesn't reply your query, given that your query is what number of folks recognise what WOW method, no longer what WOW method. To resolve that I advocate you depend the quantity of right solutions on your query and think 5000 folks (a as an alternative unattainable assumption!!!!) appear at this question. 5000 it approximately zero.0001 % of worldwide's populace. So if out 5000 folks 10 anser properly, instances that by means of one million and you are going to uncover the complete quantity of folks on the earth who recognise what WOW method. However this isn't very correct!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 4

I write Ws w/ 2 Us instead of Vs

Answer 5

Double V and never really thought about it until now

Answer 6

ancient people, they wrote u and try to develop a new letter which called double_u and they wrote uu nad because of long period, there are some scientific symbols which for electricity, so they change from u-shape to v-shape, and a new letter become W

Answer 7

i write double v.
it was accidentally invented buy jesus while he was in the photo mat getting his picture developed.

Answer 8

for now on I will call it by its proper name Double Vee.

Answer 9

yeah, w sucks. i try not to use it, but when i do i write double v.

Answer 10

That's a great speech! Full of sound and fury, etc.