W
I wonder about the letter W. It isn’t two U’s at all. It is more like a double V. Besides U is a vowel and W is only a vowel rarely along with Y. I’m all for the letter W; some of my favorite words include it, but I don’t think it should be called a Double-U. No more than E should be called an F with a base, or a q ba called an O with a penis, or an X should be called Crossed I’s.
posted by The Guy Who Writes This at 4:00 AM
15 Comments:
"U" used to look like "V" and they were used interchangeably. Look at any old English texts or carvings and you'll see words like PVBLIC instead of PUBLIC.
VW--cryere: Derrieres frozen, for posterity.
But in cursive, it looks like two 'U's" joined.
Good god, man, you are losing it.
Has this week been that rough?
I never knew W could be a vowel. And I went to college. And graduate school. How funny...
Rich I guess they had to invent a new letter when they discovered Ultraviolet. They couldn't abbreviate UV with out it.
Donna, doesn't it also have a shelf following it in cursive?
Auntie, Ho Boy, I'll tell you all about it next week.
Anon, We were taught A,E,I,O,U and Sometimes Y and W. Y is easy with words like By and My and Why. For an explanation of then W, check this link
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_Word_uses_w_as_a_vowel
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&oi=video_result&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAkQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DjBjwlWfZqYo&rct=j&q=baby+grands+%22why+is+it+w%22&ei=bCxsS9OKLtqE8QbsibSDBg&usg=AFQjCNEXeL0DMrAnj8j2j3CCE2hH5MRfcA&sig2=6Nrf_n8F_g4CwpNAEnNmhg
The kids group "The Baby Grands" wrote a song about this very thing...well, without the mention of a penis I guess.
Whoa, How and why would you possibly know this Baby Grand thing exists?
I went here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W and ended up wondering how we managed to keep it all straight to begin with. It's a wonder with all the changes that have happened that we still manage to speak a language at all. Now my brain is filled with fricatives and sibilants with the occasional umlaut thrown in. Not a nice thing to do to someone first thing in the morning, you know.
veri word: rednerso- A long-unused sobriquet for someone who was made to feel important by being given insignificant tasks.
in italian, W is pronounced "doppiavu" which means "double v"...
i wonder if it has something to do with waaaaaaaay long time ago when mean wore skirts and helmets and stuff and Us were actually Vs - as in BVLGARI?
just wonderin'.
Actually Guy, I did go to that wiki site. At first I was going to call you on the whole W as a vowel thing... never heard of such craziness! But then I thought... Hey. Wait. Could it be??? Sure enough. Makes me question my entire education. I don't even remember that from Sesame Street... and they should know!
I will never be able to think of a lowercase "q" the same way again. Thanks, Mr. Guy.
Darev, now I don't feel so bad when I screw up the language.
Dalia, it is a Romance language, so a Roman influence can not be denied.
Anon, you may have a graduate degree, but I went to Catholic school where we were taught the obscure.
Jaggy, I was talking about the upper case Q, but I guess that could go for the well endowed R as well
When I think of "W", I think of capitalism and how great our nation once was before its slow descent toward socialism.
As I wave and say "Miss me?"
g, when you make a comment such as this one I find us fortunate that you have resigned from ever entering politics again.
Thought I'd stir the pot a tad.
Think I'll go on an anti global warming spree.
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