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RE: Der große Deutsch-Report KW 37 2018

in #deutsch6 years ago (edited)

Lieber Max,

wow! Was eine tolle Arbeit! Vielen dank dafür!

Und vielen Dank auch für die so freundliche und nette Vorstellung (Erwähnung) unserer Kneipe!

Lieben Gruß, @double-u

Edit: Das mit dem double-u statt (v) war mir noch nie aufgefallen ;-)

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Hier kannst du den Grund nachlesen:

English uses the Latin alphabet of the Romans. However, this had no letter suitable for representing the speech sound /w/ which was used in Old English, though phonetically the sound represented by /v/ was quite close. In the 7th century scribes wrote uu for /w/; later they used the runic symbol known as wynn. European scribes had continued to write uu, and this usage returned to England with the Norman Conquest in 1066. Early printers sometimes used vv for lack of a w in their type. The name double-u recalls the former identity of u and v, which you can also see in a number of words with a related origin, for example flour/flower, guard/ward, or suede/Swede.

(Based on the Oxford Companion to the English Language)

Quelle: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/why-is-w-pronounced-double-u/

Oh, danke! Das ist interessant.

Danke Werner,
ich war immer gerne in der Kneipe und wenn es sich anbietet, denn bin ich immer wieder gerne dabei :)

Das freut mich sehr!