Hi, forgive this off post please.
Does anyone have any idea why the 23 letter of the alphebet is called
double-u?
It is the only letter with more than one sylable. W is three sylables.
I thought that it might have been called dub'l-yoo when explaining to a
child how to
write the letter. Two U's. Double-U. But a printed W is more like two V's.
So shouldn't it be called Double-V? Makes sense to me.
I have been trying to find out why the letter W is called double-u. I have
looked at the online dictionaries, Encyclopedia's, Excite search... under
double U, dub-a-you
dub'l-yoo etc... with no explantions so far.
I would really like to get to the bottom of this. Can anyone help?
Thanks.
Dan
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