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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Only one letter of the English alphabet has more than one syllable, and it has three.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We should have named it u-two or to be more shape accurate, v-2.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you were wondering, it got named "double u" when u and v were the same letter, V was used at the beginning of words and u ain the middle/end. It wasn't till much later they were seperated into 2 glyphs for different sounds.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In German it's called a Doppel-Vau, with Vau being the letter V.

In Dutch it's just called wee, none of this double bullshit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In German it's V = Fau, W = Vee.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Huh. I learned doppel-fau in high school. Could it be that both terms are used?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

No. Romance languages use variations of double V but not German

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

No, I'm not aware of any dialect that does and standard German definitely doesn't use it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

And then would accidentally put music in your library.

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