Timeline for How to spell "W" in lyrics
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| Aug 7, 2023 at 19:20 | comment | added | Idran | @Barmar I think it's just not split up properly, it looks like it should be: "it's not any trouble, you/know it's a double-u". When written like that it scans much better. | |
| Aug 7, 2023 at 18:22 | comment | added | dan04 |
@phoog: In fact, "and" (that is, the character &) was considered a "letter" 200 years ago.
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| Aug 7, 2023 at 18:19 | comment | added | Wayne Conrad | Americans understand dialectical differences as well as any Britisher. Written one way, pronounced perhaps differently in common dialect, and then differently again in my local dialect. Not a big deal. | |
| Aug 7, 2023 at 16:58 | comment | added | Greg Martin | "Double-u" is the official name of the letter W, according to multiple sources on the web such as en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W | |
| Aug 7, 2023 at 16:40 | comment | added | phoog | @BrianTHOMAS what varieties of English use any name other than "double U"? Some Americans may say "dubyuh" when they're speaking, but they use three syllabes when singing the alphabet song. | |
| Aug 7, 2023 at 16:38 | comment | added | phoog | @yo' I think it makes sense in the alphabet song only to reduce the risk of confusing people who are using the alphabet song to learn the alphabet. I've encountered children who thought variously that "n" was in the alphabet twice or that "and" was a letter. Not to mention ellemenno.... | |
| Aug 7, 2023 at 16:03 | comment | added | Aaron | @BrianTHOMAS American's also pronounce it "dou-ble-u". | |
| S Aug 7, 2023 at 16:00 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 7, 2023 at 14:46 | comment | added | Brian THOMAS | American singers might be puzzled that you've asked them to fit the two syllables dub-yuh into three notes... Spell out exactly what you want - non-UK English speakers have different names for the letter W. | |
| Aug 7, 2023 at 13:57 | comment | added | Barmar | The second song doesn't scan well. The rhyme for "trouble" is just "double", so the "you" has to slip into the next line. | |
| Aug 7, 2023 at 13:35 | comment | added | yo' |
W _____ is super-confusing anywhere else than the alphabet song (where it makes sense to list it this way probably). I would just go with double U, preferring readibility over meaning.
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| Aug 7, 2023 at 1:22 | history | answered | Aaron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |