Seriously, looked at them: UU looks nothing like W.
Welp, I guess I should get back to work.
2006-09-18 01:36:51 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Shouldn't it be called a double-v then?
VV W, see, they're nearly identical.
2006-09-18 01:42:07 · update #1
This is really a historical item and it does go back to writing in in languages before Latin.
In early Greek and Etruscan, the symbol looked more like the modern letter "Y" and was called upsilon. It was used for both the V sounding consonant and the U sounding vowel. Classical Roman changed the symbol to look like the letter "V."
The Unical Latin script (about 300 to 700 A.D.) was the first to use the U symbol instead of the V shape. Much later (about 1400) the Italic Cursive script started using different symbols for the different sounds. U for the vowel, V for the consonant, and W for the extended consonant. The symbol was named at this time. It probably was the equivalent of "Double -oo" and became "Double U."
It does look like two V's: VV.
2006-09-18 01:47:18 · answer #1 · answered by Richard 7 · 74⤊ 0⤋
Roman lettering had only the V shape and it was used as a vowel, and as a consonant , normally with a sound much like W. A double letter in Latin is actually pronounced as two letters with a small stop in between them
2006-09-18 08:47:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
if you go back in language history a couple of hundred years you'll find that people actually represented the "w" sound by writing two "u"'s back to back. you can still find remnants of that in the welsh language, where "w" stands for a long "u". the town "clwyd" in north wales for instance is pronounced "cloo-id". and, as of course a couple of hundred years ago when "w" was still "uu" people usually wrote by hand, the "uu" would have looked like a "w".
2006-09-18 08:49:47 · answer #3 · answered by nerdyhermione 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The reason being is that, in standard cursive (what they teach the little third-graders), two U's side by side represent a W...basically, the name 'duhba-you' is only true of standardized cursive.
2006-09-18 08:40:11 · answer #4 · answered by : ) 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
In old cursive script, pre-printing presses, it was written as two 'u's. Some people still write it that way.
2006-09-18 08:46:40 · answer #5 · answered by inquisitor 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
DANGIT.
Jackie beat me to the Dubya quip.
Merde.
2006-09-18 13:59:28 · answer #6 · answered by bunjibear777 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The double U when writeen is actually a double V.
2006-09-18 08:39:45 · answer #7 · answered by WC 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It is just written with a double "v"
2006-09-18 08:40:03 · answer #8 · answered by Keith Perry 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I agree...it should be called double-v.
Oh...if that is a picture of ELVIS then you go boy...GOTTA LOVE ELVIS!!!
2006-09-18 08:46:47 · answer #9 · answered by skunk_luv 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
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I LOVE YOUR THINKING......
Good Q =) Made my day
2006-09-18 12:24:57 · answer #10 · answered by ♥ goddessofraine ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋