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I’ve always wondered why it’s not double v, but I say double you
In French, it is!
I looked into it once before, the short answer is because the letter predates the distinction between “u” and “v”.
Edit: Here’s a comment I made a while ago on the same topic with a little more information: https://lemmy.world/comment/10659648
I think it’s because of how the letter is written in cursive that we call it ‘double u’.
Normal conversational speed: dubya
Enunciating: double you
Need to be unambiguous: whiskey
Tell me you are from the south without telling me you are from the south
More like duba-you instead of dubya in normal conversation.
dabulu
“Double U”.
I heard a guy call it a “we” and I liked that. Such as:
“ay-we-ee” (A-W-E)What is a “westerner”?
Apparently people who speak English
The French, Polish, Dutch, etc. are now reclassified as Asians
I love to poke at people’s conception of Western with these questions:
Is New Zealand Western?
Is Japan Western?
Is Brazil Western?
Is South Africa Western?
Is Kenya Western?
Is Lebanon Western?
Is Israel Western?
Is Hungary Western?
Is Finland Western?
Is Russia Western?
Is Armenia Western?If your nation was within NATO, it’s likely western If after the collapse of the USSR, your nation joined EU, it’s likely western And anything outside this category would be third world or eastern (Russia, China, Vietnam)
I realise you were just offering a hueristic, but Ironically all of the three countries you listed were Second World nations. (I’ve also never heard Eastern used in a similar way to Western in the way you used it at the end there before.)
Australia isn’t Western then, but Romania is?
That’s because east-west is not based on the region, it’s based on cultural aspects, along with a few other things like how people communicate. This is why Australia is western as it has a western culture. So, the whole cold war NATO thing is not 100% accurate, but defining first, second, and third world is since those are defined by political ideologies.
Well yes, First (Cold War era capitalists), Second (Communist, Marxist, and Maoist nations), and Third World (non-aligned and all the rest of them) are all clearly defined.
Western is more nebulous, which is why I like to push back at it. Each person’s idea of “Western” tends to be a little different.
If we’re taking the cultural root then Brazil, Israel and Lebanon make a nice test cases.
Edit: oh, you’re making the case that Western = First World Nations. That’s a fair and valid short cut, with Japan/South Korea/RoC, and various oost-Communist states in Europe.
Wait was Australia not in NATO? oh shit
In Irish it’s called wae.
Way to complicated, just say “we” with the w from way and the e from hell like we Germans do.
Another great example of our German efficiency! Warum zur Hölle soll das ein Doppel-V sein? Habt’s ihr alle Lack gesoffen?
Aber “fau” macht Sinn ja?
Ja, genauso wie Ypsilon
“ve”
There’s also “dubyuh” that’s fairly common. Hell, we had a president that pronounced it that way.
Doubleyou
“double you” formally or “doubleya” informally.
“Dubba-you” is my informal; “dubbya” if I’m throwing an exaggerated southern accent
Canadians here.
It’s “double-you”, but if spoken quickly, it can become “dub-you”
Non native speaker, and both of those hold true for me as well. Unless I’m referencing a hostname with www in it; then I just say dub-dub-dub
I still stick the yous in there, haha
I used to, until I realized Moxie Marlinspike doesn’t, so I stopped for easier pronounciation.
