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W is fairly recent in the official French alphabet and its officially called "double v". In Belgium it can be pronounced or heard as "way" (wé) usually for - B
by whynotmaybe 2y ago
W is fairly recent in the official French alphabet and its officially called "double v".
In Belgium it can be pronounced or heard as "way" (wé) usually for
- BMW as "bay-hem-way" (bé-m-wé)
- www as "way-way-way" (wé-wé-wé)
- WC as "way-say" (wé-c) .
- sjrd 2y agoAnd it's so convenient, too! No letter thus requires several syllables to be pronounced. It's one thing I keep using from Belgian French despite having lived in Switzerland for over a decade, because it's objectively better. (Swiss French has the objectively better names for 70-80-90, though. No quatre-vingt-dix BS like on France. :-p)
- chrismorgan 2y agoAll the letters are one syllable, except w, which is three. All the digits are one syllable, except 7 and 0, which are two. I dislike these facts about them.