On Apr 12, 2005, at 8:37 PM, Bruce K H Kau wrote:
I believe "W" is the only polysyllabic letter in the English alphabet. I have heard attempts (by internetters?) to call it a "dub", but that doesn't work for me. Personally, I would keep the letters as letters except for "W", which I would spell out as "dou-ble U"
I concur with all of this. Unless you've got a rare exceptional case, spelling out letters adds more confusion than it removes.
The "dou-ble U" is not entirely theoretical for me, as once upon a time I concocted an alternate lyric for "Embraceable You" in which one of the lines was "M-A-R, K-D-L-E-dou-ble-U". (Yet another verse describing the first might call it a C-L-E-R-I-H-E-dou-ble-U....)
mdl
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