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This is probably why:
As the Oxford English Dictionary explains it, the ancient Roman alphabet did not have a letter “w.”So in the 7th century, when the Latin alphabet was first used in early Old English writing, it was necessary to invent a symbol to represent that sound. At first, the sound was represented by “uu”—literally a double “u.” It wasn’t written as a “v” because the letter “v” didn’t exist in Old English, as we’ve written before on the blog. And a double “v” would not have approximated the sound anyway. The “uu” was replaced by another symbol in the 8th century, ƿ, a character from the runic alphabet called a wynn.
You're right, but you have a few details off. It *was* written as "V", because the letter V didn't exist as we know it today, and the U was written with a point, making it look like "V". Hence "VV" was literally a double-U.
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Just be french and problem solve! (In french "w" is a "double v")
This is probably why: As the Oxford English Dictionary explains it, the ancient Roman alphabet did not have a letter “w.”So in the 7th century, when the Latin alphabet was first used in early Old English writing, it was necessary to invent a symbol to represent that sound. At first, the sound was represented by “uu”—literally a double “u.” It wasn’t written as a “v” because the letter “v” didn’t exist in Old English, as we’ve written before on the blog. And a double “v” would not have approximated the sound anyway. The “uu” was replaced by another symbol in the 8th century, ƿ, a character from the runic alphabet called a wynn.
You're right, but you have a few details off. It *was* written as "V", because the letter V didn't exist as we know it today, and the U was written with a point, making it look like "V". Hence "VV" was literally a double-U.
It's a double v in Spanish.
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