In Swedish the letter w is called “dubbel v”, apart from when spelling URLs, then we just say something like “ve, ve, ve, punkt, de, änn, punkt, äss, e” if we wanted to say the URL “www.dn.se”.
The “äss” phonetic spelling will really help the english speakers reading it not pronounce it as “ass”. Love it.
I’d probably have transcribed the letter pronunciation as ‘ve, ve, ve, punkt, de, en, punkt, ess e’.
Just goes to show you that ‘en’ doesn’t even follow the normal pronunciation rules of Swedish, unless we’re talking about the tree, in which case it does.
I thought about that but “en” is pronounced differently from “änn”, and we have the word “äss” from a deck of cards.
I had to double-check, because I’ve only ever used the spelling “Ess”. Turns out both variants are correct.
Way to complicated, just say “we” with the w from way and the e from hell like we Germans do.
“ve”
Another great example of our German efficiency! Warum zur Hölle soll das ein Doppel-V sein? Habt’s ihr alle Lack gesoffen?
Germans, being efficient, just call it “veh”
How someone is pronouncing W is actually a good way to guess where the speaker is from, or where the person that taurht them learned english.
double you for british/american accents
dubba you for some american accents
Dablu or dabloo is a clear indication that the speaker is not a naitive western english speaker, usually indicating indian for the speaker.
double v (often pronounced as double we) usually points towards somewhere near germany/holland/belgium
I’ve never heard anyone say just dub, curious if anyone has?
Edit: I lied. W pronounced ‘dub’ is only ever used to indicate a ‘win’. e.g. ‘Took the dub’
double v (often pronounced as double we) usually points towards somewhere near germany/holland/belgium
As a Dutchie, we pronounce W as “Weigh” or “Way”. No double nonsense.
I’ve always wondered why it’s not double v, but I say double you
I looked into it once before, the short answer is because the letter predates the distinction between “u” and “v”.
Edit: Here’s a comment I made a while ago on the same topic with a little more information: https://lemmy.world/comment/10659648
