• @Arrkk
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    610 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.

    • @Hagdos
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      010 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

        • @Hagdos
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          110 months ago

          Huh. I learned doppel-fau in high school. Could it be that both terms are used?

          • @lugal
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            210 months ago

            No. Romance languages use variations of double V but not German