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This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter W. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome , pronounced to rhyme with cars
In Turkey, the use of the w was banned between 1928 and 2013 [18] [19] which was a problem for the Kurdish population in Turkey as the w was a letter of the Kurdish alphabet. [20] The use of the letter w in the word Newroz, the Kurdish new year, was forbidden, [21] and names which included the letter were not able to be used.
Capital wynn appears twice in this 10th century inscription in Breamore: her sƿutelað seo gecƿydrædnes ðe (Here is manifested the Word to thee). Wynn or wyn [1] (Ƿ ƿ; also spelled wen, win, ƿynn, ƿyn, ƿen, and ƿin) is a letter of the Old English alphabet, where it is used to represent the sound /w/.
This vocalic w generally represented /uː/, [3] [4] as in wss ("use"). [5] However at that time the form w was still sometimes used to represent a digraph uu (see W), not as a separate letter. In modern Welsh, "W" is simply a single letter which often represents a vowel sound. Thus words borrowed from Welsh may use w this way, such as:
The next three words come after Aster because their fourth letter (the first one that differs) is r, which comes after e (the fourth letter of Aster) in the alphabet. Those words themselves are ordered based on their sixth letters (l, n and p respectively). Then comes At, which differs from the preceding words in the second letter (t comes ...
The sound was used in Gothic and represented by the letter hwair. In Old High German, it was written as huu , a spelling also used in Old English along with hƿ (using the letter wynn). In Middle English the spelling was changed to hw (with the development of the letter w ) and then wh , but the pronunciation remained [ʍ].
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