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Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended for readers who enjoy fascinating deep dives into the history of odd letters and the alphabet.
What it is
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 by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2021 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends tdeck · 2021-09 · on “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]
Recommends TRiG_Ireland · 2023-06 · on “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]
Recommends meatmanek · 2023-09 · on “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]