It is from this ⟨uu⟩ digraph that the modern name "double U" derives. The digraph ⟨VV⟩/ ⟨uu⟩ was also used in Medieval Latin to represent Germanic names, including Gothic ones like Wamba. Gothic (not Latin-based), by contrast, had simply used a letter based on the Greek Υ for the same sound in the 4th century. The Germanic /w/ phoneme was, therefore, written as ⟨VV⟩ or ⟨uu⟩ ( ⟨ u⟩ and ⟨ v⟩ becoming distinct only by the Early Modern period) by the earliest writers of Old English and Old High German, in the 7th or 8th centuries. Therefore, ⟨V⟩ no longer adequately represented the voiced labial-velar approximant sound /w/ of Germanic phonology.Ī letter W appearing in the coat of arms of Vyborg The sounds / w/ (spelled ⟨V⟩) and / b/ (spelled ⟨B⟩) of Classical Latin developed into the voiced bilabial fricative /β/ between vowels in Early Medieval Latin. The "W" sounds were represented by the Latin letter " V" (at the time, not yet distinct from " U"). The classical Latin alphabet, from which the modern European alphabets derived, did not have the "W" character.
History A 1693 book printing that uses the "double u" alongside the modern letter this was acceptable if printers did not have the letter in stock or the font had been made without it. Its name in English is double-u, plural double-ues. It represents a consonant, but in some languages it represents a vowel. W, or w, is the twenty-third and fourth-to-last letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
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