If a "W" looks like this, why isn't it called a "double-V?"

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Esmeralda Jarvis

10 January, 00:26

If a "W" looks like this, why isn't it called a "double-V?"

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Kimora Saunders · Answer 1

Kimora Saunders 10 January, 01:14

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Because your an idiot

Carsen Sellers · Answer 2

To distinguish the sound of "w" from either "v" or the up and coming "u ", a doubleform of "u" was taken to represent the original Classical Latin "v ", written as 'uu.' Compound letters used to represent a phoneme are called a digraph