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    jan Misali

    3 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2021–2023

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    18:28 · 3.7M views · Jul 1, 2019

    jan Misali traces the history of the letter W, including why it is called double u. The video is part of a series of deep dives into individual letters.

    Recommended for readers who enjoy fascinating deep dives into the history of odd letters and the alphabet.

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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @meatmanekSep 2023· in “Who Invented the Alphabet?”

      If you're interested in fascinating deep dives into the history of a few odd letters, the jan Misali channel on Youtube has a video on the letter W (which, along the way, covers F and Y) and another one on the letter C. w: this video c: [LINK]

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    2. @tdeckSep 2021· in “New work sheds light on the Etruscans, who may have founded Rome”

      Folks reading this thread would likely appreciate this video on the history of C: [LINK] It goes into a lot of these evolutionary stages. And the history of W: this video

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    3. @TRiG_IrelandJun 2023· in “Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs”

      That is indeed why w is named "double u" in English (and "double v" in French. And why it's a vowel in Welsh. See more from jan Misali: this video

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