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marginalia_nu
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Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg
It's also noteworthy that in Swedish, w is a double-v not a double-u.
dadadad100
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In French also [1]
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https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/French/Alphabet
Mistletoe
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Just realized how weird it is we call it double-u when it is a double-v. Language is weird.
marginalia_nu
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The history of u, v, double-u and double-v is really convoluted. They're the same letter but also not quite. There are historical reasons that make sense as to why this is.
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