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Re:Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspire... by mtlmtlmtlmtl on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @05:26PM (#36512829)
A 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.
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Re:Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspire... by jabbany on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @06:20PM (#36513444)
This is also interesting since in French (and I think Spanish?) W is (correctly) called "double V"
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Re:Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspire... by namtab00 on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @07:32PM (#36514211)
In Romanian and Italian too.
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Re:Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspire... by mtlmtlmtlmtl on Thursday June 29, 2023 @03:50AM (#36517629)
Same 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.
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Re:Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspire... by EGreg on Thursday June 29, 2023 @01:51AM (#36516832)
Same with B and V, P and F, SS and Z, etc.

It is why PH is F, for instance.

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Re:Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspire... by TRiG_Ireland on Thursday June 29, 2023 @05:44AM (#36518343)
That 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

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