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MabusIncarnate 02/17/18 6:34:17 PM #1: |
Instead of "double V"
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Anisoptera 02/17/18 6:34:48 PM #2: |
Double U is the only letter that you don't sound out when singing the alphabet.
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kirby chao198 02/17/18 6:37:10 PM #3: |
In French it's actually called "double V".
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stone 02/17/18 6:37:28 PM #4: |
kirby chao198 posted...
In French it's actually called "double V". Came in to say this. --- PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them ... Copied to Clipboard!
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MabusIncarnate 02/17/18 6:38:42 PM #5: |
kirby chao198 posted...
In French it's actually called "double V". No kidding, I didn't know that. Interesting. --- Ten million dollars on a losing campaign Twenty million starving and writhing in pain ... Copied to Clipboard!
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StarKnight23 02/17/18 6:39:49 PM #7: |
Double V is not how I write my Double U's
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sobergermanguy 02/17/18 6:40:31 PM #8: |
I say Dubya
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Glucian 02/17/18 6:42:05 PM #9: |
Should be pronounced "dubya" imo.
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Metro2 02/17/18 6:43:21 PM #10: |
In Norwegian, it is called double-v
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Hexenherz 02/17/18 6:46:41 PM #11: |
I was taught that in German it is also doppel-v.
I think it was just written as a digraph (uu) originally in English which is where that name comes from. --- RS3: UltimaSuende . On the quest to 99 WC. Currently at 98. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Kafkaf 02/17/18 6:47:52 PM #12: |
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Hexenherz 02/17/18 6:51:19 PM #13: |
Huh that's interesting. I was always kind of curious why the Russian Z was so early in the alphabet.
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stone 02/17/18 6:54:31 PM #14: |
Kafkaf posted...
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brotrrwinner 02/17/18 7:09:56 PM #15: |
In Portuguese it's also double-v
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