Binette@lemmy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 4 months agoJust realized that "upside down" means "the up side is down", making it upside downmessage-squaremessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareJust realized that "upside down" means "the up side is down", making it upside downBinette@lemmy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square60fedilink
minus-squaresmokebuddy [he/him]@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoThe letter W is both called “double-U” and looks like two letter Us combined (in some curvy fonts at least)
minus-squared00phy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoIIRC from high school, they taught us “V” was “Vega” and “W” was “doble Vega”. Looking at Wikipedia, I may be remembering that wrong. They have “ve” and “doble ve”
minus-squareZink@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoEven moreso if you consider the old Latin alphabet that used V and didn’t have U.
minus-squareFiskFisk33@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoIn my language it’s called double-v, which makes so much more sense to me.
The letter W is both called “double-U” and looks like two letter Us combined (in some curvy fonts at least)
IIRC from high school, they taught us “V” was “Vega” and “W” was “doble Vega”. Looking at Wikipedia, I may be remembering that wrong. They have “ve” and “doble ve”
Even moreso if you consider the old Latin alphabet that used V and didn’t have U.
In my language it’s called double-v, which makes so much more sense to me.