What does "W" mean for?

Question

Think logically

Answer 1

The letter W is the twenty-third letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is double-u /ˈdʌ.bəl.juː/.

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" (compare the shape of ƕ).

The Latin /w/ sound developed into Romance /v/; therefore V no longer adequately represented Germanic /w/. In German — as in Romance — the phoneme /w/ also became /v/ (this is why German W represents that sound). 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. Only English uses it to represent a voiced labial-velar approximant though, German and Polish uses it for a voiced labiodental fricative (with Polish using Ł for the labial-velar approximant), while Dutch uses it for a labiodental approximant. Unlike its use in other languages, the letter is used in Welsh as a vowel.

In the Swedish alphabet, W, called "double V" in Sweden, finally entered the language officially in 2006, being accepted into the Swedish Academy's dictionary. Up to that time, it was simply treated as a variety of the single V, but has become the 29th letter to be acknowledged as part of the Swedish alphabet.

In the Finnish alphabet, "W" is seen as a variant of "V" and not a separate letter. It is however recognized and maintained in names, like "William". In the alphabets of modern Romance languages, it is not used either, except in foreign names and words recently borrowed (le week-end, il watt, el kiwi). When a spelling for /w/ in a native word is needed, a spelling from the native alphabet, such as U or OU, can be used instead. In Hebrew the same letter, waw or vav is used to represent both /w/ and /v/, which causes problems in some cases; for example, many Israelis say "Hollyvud" rather than "Hollywood" or "Darvin" rather than "Darwin". See more (in Hebrew).

The equivalent representation of the /w/ sound in the Cyrillic alphabet is Ў, a letter unique to the Belarusian language. The Russians, however, use the Cyrillic character В, (thie equivalent of V in the Latin alphabet), when transliterating "W."

"Double U" is the only English letter name with more than one syllable. This gives the nine-syllable initialism www the irony of being an abbreviation that takes more syllables to say than the unabbreviated form. A few speakers therefore shorten the name "double u" into "dub" only, although this is rather rare and nonstandard; for example, University of Washington is known colloquially as "U Dub" and "dub-dub-dub" is also used in replaced of www in New Zealand and Australia (see pronunciation of "www"). In the Texas dialect of American English, the name is often condensed to two syllables rather than three, as in George W. Bush's nickname of "Dubya".

Answer 2

What a wonderful question. Religion is, of course, the form that one's worship takes. Thus there are thousands of forms. Religion includes a system of religious beliefs and practices. The object of the religion may be false gods or the true God. Hence, there is false religion and there is true. Religion can get very fancy or remain simple. In the former case, such as it is today. In the latter case, such as it was in the Garden of Eden. What then is worship to me? How do I worship? To worship means to obey. And to obey means to worship. The two are intimately connected; indeed, they are coterminous and cannot be separated. Specifically, to obey the Sovereign Lord God Jehovah of Armies is to worship Him. I do my imperfect best in this regard. I fall on my face and get back up to try and try again. In the Garden of Eden, so long as they obeyed Jehovah, Adam and Eve were worshiping him. No temple, no Mosaic Law, no meetings. Simply leave the tree of the knowledge of good and bad alone. Simple. The minute they disobeyed, they stopped worshiping Jehovah. Same with the nation of Israel. The minute they attempted to practice a syncretistic religion they stopped worshiping Jehovah. The minute they made the golden calf, they stopped. And on and on. To worship is to obey. To obey is to worship. Hannah J Paul

Answer 3

President Bush's middle name is Walker

W was, and may still be, a magazine in Washington

W may also be the name of a magazine for Women

The Starwood hotel chain "W" stands for whatever, whenever.

Wiki says a bunch of things about the letter W.

Answer 4

Whipped

Answer 5

Logically it is a double U. Meningwise it can be your "DOUBLE"

Answer 6

M is for Man..
but men are all upside down clowns!!
so it needs a straight upright Woman to set right a Man !!!!

Answer 7

Wild

Answer 8

Worth
whatever
whethere
where
when
what
why
whom
went
warrant
worry
world

Answer 9

Depends where "W" is used along, for WWW it means World Wide Web.......Was that explanatory enough.... NO even ur question is not......

Answer 10

W stands for 1.WE
2.WOMAN
3.WORLD