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If a “W” looks like this, why isn’t it called a “double-V?”
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If a “W” looks like this, why isn’t it called a “double-V?”

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Because your an idiot
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To distinguish the sound of “w” from either “v” or the up and coming “u”, a doubleform of “u” was taken to represent the original Classical Latin “v”, written as 'uu.' Compound letters used to represent a phoneme are called a digraph
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