Pourquoi en anglais le w se dit "double u", alors que c'est clairement deux v collés ?
As the Oxford English Dictionary explains it, the ancient Roman alphabet did not have a letter “w.”www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2011/04/double-u.html
So in the 7th century, when the Latin alphabet was first used in early Old English writing, it was necessary to invent a symbol to represent that sound.
At first, the sound was represented by “uu”—literally a double “u.”
It wasn’t written as a “v” because the letter “v” didn’t exist in Old English, as we’ve written before on the blog. And a double “v” would not have approximated the sound anyway.
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