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minus-squareSubverb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 months agoOnly one letter of the English alphabet has more than one syllable, and it has three.
minus-squareFurtiveFugitive@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoWe should have named it u-two or to be more shape accurate, v-2.
minus-squareArrkk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoIf 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.
minus-squareHagdos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoIn 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
minus-squareHagdos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoHuh. I learned doppel-fau in high school. Could it be that both terms are used?
minus-squarelugal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoNo. Romance languages use variations of double V but not German
minus-squarezaphod@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoNo, I’m not aware of any dialect that does and standard German definitely doesn’t use it.
Only one letter of the English alphabet has more than one syllable, and it has three.
We should have named it u-two or to be more shape accurate, v-2.
Can’t. The band would sue.
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.
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
In German it’s V = Fau, W = Vee.
Huh. I learned doppel-fau in high school. Could it be that both terms are used?
No. Romance languages use variations of double V but not German
No, I’m not aware of any dialect that does and standard German definitely doesn’t use it.