• Arrkk@lemmy.world
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      9 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.

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        9 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