I was in college when I first realized the word for “w” was double u, like two u’s, because that’s the shape of the letter
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Overly pedantic guy who calls it "double v" and acts like its totally normal and obvious
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or if ya wanna get all fancy~~ the frogs like doo-bluh-vay which is kinda more like how the letter usually looks
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Which is concerning, because it doesn’t. It looks like a double v, what the French call it.
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Wasn't U written like V in Latin text, though?
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i grew up in the south, so for the longest time i thought it was pronounced “dubya”
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