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[-] Subverb@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

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

[-] FurtiveFugitive@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Arrkk@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] Hagdos@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

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

[-] zaphod@feddit.de 3 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Hagdos@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

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

[-] lugal@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

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

[-] zaphod@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago

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

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