Why doubleV
The letter W is pronounced “double U” — and has never quite made sense.
W is not two U’s. Look at its shape and it is unmistakably two V’s set side by side. The French understood this all along, calling it double vay — double V.
My last name is Weiss, which begins with W. doubleV is that initial read literally: the two V’s that together form a W.
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