why do we call small letter 'w' as double 'u' and not capital letter 'W' as double 'v'
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You can write the lowercase w with hard corners - that's not why it's called a double-u.\n\nThe alphabet as we know it goes back to ancient latin alphabet.  The letter they called U was written as a V, long before we had a "V."  The W was originally written as "VV" as opposed to it's own letter.  This combination was added in late Latin times to represent a Germanic sound the Romans didn't use.  Later, in the middle ages, the letter U was added as a distictly different sound from the V, and the W became it's own letter, retaining it's naming from what people were used to using to refer to the VV sound.
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The come from Roman language which is the basis of most written language in the western world.  I would suggest reading the wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_letters for a start to help you understand why it is done and then click on some of the links there for more information.\n\nGood Luck!!!
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YES! I knew I wasn't the only one. I just graduated and the fact that on a final exam someone in my class  used "u" in every other sentence and passed really makes me re-evaluate my education lol. I know people who've learned English as a third language who use better grammar and spelling. It's spreads beyond "u" too. I guess "see" is too time consuming to write out so people just put the letter C.  I bet in a few years, we'll have minimized actual words so much that our vocabulary will just consist of strings of two or three letters of the alphabet so instead of saying "good night" we'll say "g n ttyl".  I don't generally use it but I've learned to accept it. :)\n\nC U L8ER
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Cool observation, if it's your own.\n\nIt's probably because the letter "e" is just, in general, more common than the letter "a".  It's used more.
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There's not really one right answer to this. Some style guides insist on capitalizing Internet (and Web, when it's used as a noun), but others prefer to keep them lowercased. Most dictionaries still seem to prefer the capitalized version, but that may not last for long.
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It's "a universal".\n\nThe choice of whether to use "a" or "an" depends on whether the following word begins with a vowel sound or a consonant sound.  "Universal", even though it begins with the letter "u", begins with a consonant sound (yuh), so the appropriate choice is "a".
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English spelling is not phonetic (well, maybe barely phonetic)\nAt first spelling was totally sound-out.\nPrinting started to standardize spelling, then pronunciation changed.  Spelling was already standardized, so spelling did not.\nAlso, at one point in our history, some 'learnéd' people decided to add letters to make the (probable) Latin root more apparent--that's when we got the 'b' in debt.\nMy favorite one though is where did the 'w' go in one?  It moved over to 'two'--which of course, by the standard letter values should be pronounced 'own' and 'twoh'.
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The letter W is the back of the word Cow and front of the word Women.\n\nwill in another sense, we can think a lot of unnecessary horny answers, but the answer for ur is W.\n\nThanx for 2 points,\nand also Thanx for giving me 10 points too
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Because it is plural.  In spanish if you abbreviate something in plural you double the initial.
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Ooooh dear. The pudding is still a little soggy at the bottom isn't it.\n\n\nWe have *ONE* alphabet\nThere are 26 letters in the English alphabet\nWe are clever so we can use upper AND lower case\nPronunciation is how a letter sounds - nothing to do with a letter
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According to common knowledge are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y as in sky, fly, cry, etc.  (when it makes the i. sound)\n"A letter, such as a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y in the English alphabet, that represents a vowel."\n\nhowever... there are a couple of rare, rare instances: "Cwm and crwth do not contain the letters a, e, i, o, u, or y, the usual vowels (that is, the usual symbols that stand for vowel sounds) in English. But in those words the letter w simply serves instead, standing for the same sound that "oo" stands for in the words boom and booth."
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Since you seem to have made the effort to find the answer yourself...\n\nThe answer is B: always underlined & capitalized. If it were machine printed it would italicised and capitalised.\n\nBTW, what happened to option A?
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Generally it doesn't stand for anything. It's just that. "Okay."\n\n'kk' is just Net Speak. Half the time it doesn't mean anything. Just like saying "WOMG!" the 'W' doesn't stand for anything. It just makes saying 'OMG' more funny, especially if you are picking on internet newbies.
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Yea, I heard about this on our local news cast, that you all want to "sue" everyone using the "W" as your official logo...\n\nBut, I wont help you because you dont OWN the 'W'... (How can some one own an alphabet letter!)...\n\nTrade Mark infringement?  Baloney!  Schools around here have been using the "W" for a very long time...(a lot longer than that silly trademark you people tried to get away with)...\n\nSorry, wont help you on that one!\n\nI wish you well..\n\nJesse
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If you mean letter, it is m
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The Romans used the V to mean U. "REGNVM AVGVSTINVS" means regnum Augustinus" or the reign of Augustine" for example. From there, it was a simple duplication of the V symbol to get W.
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i actually sort of saw the letter i thought of between a and w\n\nbut no this is really stupid