>W >"Double-U" >Is actually two V's Explain

>>8713281( You)

>uve-doble in spanish
eternal anglo beat by spics again

>>8713281

The answer is literally on Wikipedia's page on 'W'.

For the lazy:

The sound 'w' (bilabial fricative /β/) used to be represented by the rune 'Wynn', but after the Norman Conquest it was represented as 'UU'. In Latin, the vowel 'u' and the constant 'v' were written as 'v' (just like 'i' and 'j'), only differentiating afterwards. Thus, UU came to look VV as 'w' is a constant and not a vowel.

why not call it upsidedown m?

>>8713478
It's actually a pointy sideways 3.

>>8713484
>you meant a sigma

>>8713436
>uve-doble
>not doble-v

Fuck out of here filthy spaniard.

>>8713473
/thread sage'd

>>8713594
WE colonized your tribal asses, so you speak OUR language now.

>>8713473
>as 'w' is a constant and not a vowel.
Fucking wrong.

t. Wales.

>>8713855
Not that guy, but 'w' is a semivowel, i.e., the tongue moves as if it is going to make a consonant, but never actually does stop the airflow.

>>8713814
Yeah, but it's called a double-v in some languages, such as Swedish.

>>8713281
>V
>Vee
>It's actually singe U