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A Guessing Game (lemmy.zip)

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[-] davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In English it is literally called 'double u'

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

Even tho it's more like a double v. Always struck me as odd.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

Afaik, comes from Latin that had no "U" and "V" was both vowel and consonant until some point in time.

[-] davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Bug is supposedly a Welsh origin word that is spelt bwg. and that's the limit of my knowledge

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