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You could argue that U can be confused with V.
by pluijzer 3y ago
You could argue that U can be confused with V.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y agoA vaguely related historical tangent is that V and U used to be just two ways of writing the same letter in Early Modern English. Which I imagine is why W is named as "double U" in speaking.
- jabbany 3y agoThis is also interesting since in French (and I think Spanish?) W is (correctly) called "double V"
- namtab00 3y agoIn Romanian and Italian too.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y agoSame thing in Norwegian. But W is also not really a part of Norwegian orthography, it's just kind of there in the alphabet anyway. Only useful for names and maybe a couple loanwords.
- EGreg 3y agoSame with B and V, P and F, SS and Z, etc. It is why PH is F, for instance.
- TRiG_Ireland 3y agoThat is indeed why w is named "double u" in English (and "double v" in French. And why it's a vowel in Welsh. See more from jan Misali: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2j7mZ9-2Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2j7mZ9-2Y
- dmurray 3y ago5 and S seems more likely.
- quickthrower2 3y agoFvck!