+391 Who the hell thought it was a good idea to name the letter W "double-U" when it's clearly double-V, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_is_a_%27w%27_called_a_%27double_U%27_and_not_a_%27double_V%27

by Anonymous 12 years ago

In French and Spanish it's double v, but English is weird.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

When you write the letter in cursive, it looks like a double-u, but cursive is a dying art...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Elaborating on what you said; people mostly or entirely wrote in cursive when the modern English language was conceived. So at the time, W looked like two Us.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

in norwegian we call it double V y

by Anonymous 12 years ago

V looks like U in some hand-writings/fonts.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Back then the "v" was called a u. I learned this in my world history class.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Or as Missiourians call it "dub-ya"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

In ancient Rome, wheb writing on buildings or gravestones or whatever, they wrote the U as V. I think that's because it's pretty hard to carve a good looking U in stone ^^

by Anonymous 12 years ago