+579 ''W" is pronounced 'double u' but, "W" doesn't look like two 'u's. It looks more like two 'v's. So logically it should be called double v. Amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

First, this is extremely old. Second, it's the English language. It doesn't have to make sense.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Maybe for you but, I only thought of it today.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well depending on certain people's hand writing it looks like a 'u'

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Fair point. On the computer it looks like two 'v's though.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

depending on the font, it can look like two u's, actually

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Depends on how you write it. The spanish translation means Double V

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Actually, some spanish-speaking people also say "doble U". It works both ways (:

by Anonymous 13 years ago

spanish translation can mean double v or double u doh ble be, doh ble oo (phonetically)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

the french translation is also double V

by Anonymous 13 years ago

A lower case script "W" looks like two u's (double u).

by Anonymous 13 years ago

true

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I've been saying this for years! You're definately right

by Anonymous 13 years ago

definitely* -_-

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm pretty sure it's double v in most other languages

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The earliest form of the letter ‹W› was a doubled V used in the 5th century by the earliest writers of Old English;[5] it is from this ‹uu› digraph that the modern name "double U" comes. This digraph was not extensively used, as its sound was usually represented instead by the runic wynn (‹Ƿ›), but ‹W› gained popularity after the Norman Conquest, and by 1300 it had taken wynn's place in common use. Other forms of the letter were a pair of Vs whose branches cross in the middle. An obsolete, cursive form found in the nineteenth century in both English and German was in the form of an "n" whose rightmost branch curved around as in a cursive "v" (compare the shape of ƕ). So English doesn't make any sense, really.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

In the original Roman script "u" looked the same as "v", hence "double u".

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's how it's pronounced in French.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

hahaha i was guna say that

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Beat ya :P

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Darn, I was going to say that too.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

in most people's cursive writing it looks more like double u, and most people used to use cursive

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i don't use cursive. its confusing and hard to write and it takes too much time to look pretty -_-

by Anonymous 13 years ago

In French, my third language, v is pronounced "vay" and w is pronounced "double-vay" so I think the French have it right

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This is a repost...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

a W in lower case is 2 U's connected.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

"vv" or "uu" i personally think the "vv" looks more like the real double u "w"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

In French it's said "Double V" (pronounced doubla ve)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

In French, it's pronounced double v. (doo•bla•vay) is how you say it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Back in the old English V was U that's how it originated! E.g. public iwas pvblic

by Anonymous 13 years ago

^ what everyone else said. And I write Ws curved, so it looks like double Us.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

...German is double-v too, in case anyone wanted to know :P But yeah, old english used v's instead of u's. And I write both like a W, only smaller xD

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Between the fuckin' lions..

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Actually, in greek the U looks like a V so that's why they call it a double u because their u's were v's. :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago