40 Times People Were Confused By The English Language

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*mind blown*

You just ruined the ending for me!

This is genius!

Oh s**t.

It took me a while to remember which one is positive and which one is negative between horriffic and terrfic...

I feel you dude

This is definitely really interesting!

That is incredible ha ha

We have the exact same word in french and with the same meaning ... others meaning too ;)

In french it's called Double-V

Because the /w/ sound was originally written as uu. The letter W is comparatively recent.

And why isn't a "m" called a "Double-N"?

It used to be two u s

I think it depends on how you write your "w" :?

I think this one has roots in ancient Latin. When you see the remnants of the tangible cultural heritage, you might notice familiar words with the "U"s being written as "V"s. I wonder when and how has this change of shape and phoneme occurred....

In Dutch it's the first pronunciation in whale. So it sounds like wha.

I have had this issue since 1st grade!

Most Germanic languages pronounce "W" as if it were a "V." English doesn't. The confusion probably stems from the transition from Old English into Muddle English. :)

As far as I know, it is because originally it was written as uu and vv, making it a double u.

Because cursive writing is a thing

Because Welsh.

not in Indonesian. it's pronounced 'wé'. The V is pronounced 'fé'. That's why we don't have Miss V here 😄

It all began with Latin, where we get our alphabet. But Latin had no U. The letter U was invented to distinguish the U sound from the V sound. It's not "double V" because it doesn't make the V sound.

If you write it in cursive, it’s literally two “u”s

Originally it was two Us, but they ended up being pronounced as Vs since that's what they looked like in script.

The Classical Latin alphabet had only 23 letters, not the 26 that we have today. ... Uppercase and lowercase letters are allographs. Before the use of the letter U, the shape V stood for both the vowel U and the consonant V. In the picture below you can see the letter V used in places were it would be pronounced as a U. https://www.dictionary.com/e/theletteru/

In script writing it's two U letters

Before the U became a U, it was written as a V

some are written like U's

I always wondered if the people labeling the letter were looking at two different version. Discarding cursive a capitalized W is a double v, but a lower case w is usually written as a double u. Of course typing screws that idea up completely.

how would a double v sounds??

in french it is adouble V

It’s Vay & double vay in German and Dutch

It depends on which font you use.

I've often wondered just that!!