Why's It Called "Double-U"?

Discussion in 'Philosophy' started by G MONEY ---, Dec 1, 2004.

  1. #1 G MONEY ---, Dec 1, 2004
    Why the hell is is the lettr "W"called "Doubl-U" when it's clrearly a "Double-Vee"...as in "VV"! I mean really! GET WITH IT PEOPLE! :smoking:
     
  2. #2 dimmu_bongir, Dec 1, 2004
    Whoaa.. some questions weren't meant to be answered.

    If we were to discover why its called a double-U, the whole universe could collapse.


    Interesting note: in french, its actually called a double-V. Damn french. haha
     
  3. #3 Mr Skinner, Dec 1, 2004

    Same in norwegian. In german we have a different name for it. So it seems to me only the english have once had trouble seeing the difference between u and v :p
     
  4. #4 Greenhit, Dec 1, 2004
    shit i dunno
     
  5. #5 dimmu_bongir, Dec 1, 2004
    I wanna learn norwegian...
     
  6. #6 stoned_soldier, Dec 1, 2004
    when i print a "w" it is rounded and actually looks like two "u"s.. and plus we don't say
    vvar
    we say
    uuar
    (war)

    unless you're german and say it like a "v"

    to be blunt, that's a stupid question..
     
  7. #7 Mr Skinner, Dec 2, 2004

    I bet you do...I've noticed your name here before...and I reckoned you had to be a metalhead :D
     
  8. #8 RMJL, Dec 2, 2004

    I tend to agree with this thought. I say we leave it alone.
    ::: shhhhhh :::
    I wouldn't even ponder it, the gods will sense it and come after us all.



    W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W
     
  9. #9 Mr Skinner, Dec 2, 2004

    V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V

    lol
     
  10. #10 RMJL, Dec 2, 2004


    See ^...double-v....we need to leave it alone...I feel the earth beginning to shake ever so slightly....the gods are awakening....we're all fucked now.


    :p
     
  11. #11 neoshroom, Dec 2, 2004
    Why is 'w' pronounced 'double u' rather than 'double v', and what is the origins of this letter?

    English uses the Latin alphabet of the Romans. However, this had no letter suitable for representing the phoneme /w/ which was used in Old English, though phonetically the sound represented by /v/ was quite close. In the 7th century scribes wrote uu for /w/; later they used the runic symbols known as wynn. European scribes had continued to write uu, and this usage returned to England with the Norman Conquest in 1066. Early printers sometimes used vv for lack of a w in their type. The name double-u recalls the former identity of u and v, which is also evident in a number of cognate words (flour/flower, guard/ward, suede/Swede, etc.).(Oxford Companion to the English Language)
     
  12. #12 neoshroom, Dec 2, 2004

    Oh crap....*poof*
     
  13. #13 dimmu_bongir, Dec 2, 2004
    lol. you bastard. now we all die.
     
  14. #14 RMJL, Dec 2, 2004
    Life was nice while it lasted!!!! :p
     
  15. #15 BoBs_Beard1, Dec 2, 2004
    :hello:

    :D

    lol


    its so funny, when you are everything!


    hope the good ones are hhappy.
     
  16. #16 Digit, Dec 3, 2004
    damn the peeps who got here before me to be the smart git who tells everyone that the french have the "doobleh vae", as i imagine it writen phonetically.

    musta been silly english speakers and their curly writing when makin the names for the letters... maybe it was just some twattish rivaly between earlier alphabeters... alphabeterians.... alphabers... alphaberiers... ... early scholleras. ;D
     

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