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In Dutch www is faster. Never understood why one would give a letter a name that consists of 2 parts.

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how do you pronounce Y ?

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3 points

Sound like igrek.

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it’s two words (“i graeca”)

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Usually same as our compound letter “ij”, similar but not quite how you’d prononuce the word “eye”. Less commonly it’s pronounced as “i-grec” (greek i) or “ypsilon”.

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i-grec (but English sound for “e” just like in Dutch) is the French way as well.

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In Flanders (at least where I’m at) we usually say I grec, but when doing math or reciting the alphabet, we say IJ.

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Üpsilon

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In Swedish I pronounce y as y. It has its own sound and doesn’t sound like another letter, so it can’t be written as a combination of other letters.

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I don’t get why w is called double u when it’s clearly a double v

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U and V used to be the same letter

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It’s a long story. In short: In Latin script u and v were the same letter “u” but had two pronunciations depending on whether it was being used as a vowel or consonant. But when adapting the alphabet to Germanic languages (including Old English) the same two sounds were from two different letters, so they put two "u"s together to make double u: vv.

The full story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2j7mZ9-2Y

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In some languages (Spanish, for example) it’s double v.

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