Damn You Movie Marketing

"PS9" (PS9) 02/21/2016 at 21:07 • Filed to: None

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A W really is just two Vs. Now I can’t unsee it every time I see a W. Or is it a VV. Wait, we call it a ‘Double U’, right? But it’s a Double V. Why do we call it this -> UU when we make it look like this -> VV? Oh god look at all the double Vs/Double Us/Double whatevers in this paragraph. THAT LETTER IS RUINED FOR ME NOW FOREVER

Urambo Tauro > PS9 02/21/2016 at 21:15

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I had a co-worker a while back who drove one of these.

The license plate read “V UU”.

for Michigan > PS9 02/21/2016 at 21:16

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The figures for U and V used to be switched, so when W was named, it really was two joined Us, they just wrote them as Vs back then.

Manny05x > PS9 02/21/2016 at 21:25

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In Spanish it’s said “doble v” which translates to double v if that helps.

PotbellyJoe and 42 others > PS9 02/21/2016 at 21:32

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Auf Deutsch.. Duppel-Vey “Double V” and most of the “commoner” English has Germanic roots. Flowery and “proper” English is mostly French. Thank the Norman invasion of the Saxons for that one. Royalty spoke French and the poors spoke German. It’s also why crass words in English are closer to German while the polite form is French. Piss/Urinate, Puke/Vomit all that...

Van Man, rocks the Man Van > PS9 02/21/2016 at 21:32

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Comes from Latin. There are no U’s in Latin, so U’s are replaced by V’s. Double U’s in Latin would be written VV, hence the W (double U).

Berang > PS9 02/21/2016 at 22:00

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Have you ever heard Germans say W? Have you ever heard Germans say BMW? Fascinating.

I was told that the W is written that way because straight lines are easier to carve than curved ones, so a double u was always carved as w and it carried over into print.

Gamecat235 > PS9 02/21/2016 at 22:07

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More proof that you actually are a time traveling gaming/entertaining system. I figured that everyone asked this in, or before, elementary school. ;)

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > PS9 02/21/2016 at 22:11

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In french, it’s pronounced “double v”. So that’s correct

TheJWT > PS9 02/21/2016 at 22:29

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You wouldn’t like two of my favorite bands then...