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It is, however, recognized and maintained in the spelling of some old names, reflecting an earlier German spelling standard, and in some modern loan words. In all cases, it is pronounced /ʋ/. The first edition of the Kalevala had its title spelled Kalewala. In Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, w is named double-v and not double-u. In these ...
Double You are an Italian Techno and Eurodance group founded in 1985 by vocalist William Naraine, keyboardist and producer Franco Amato and DJ Andrea de Antoni. By ...
The words "nought" and "naught" are spelling variants. They are, according to H. W. Fowler, not a modern accident as might be thought, but have descended that way from Old English. There is a distinction in British English between the two, but it is not one that is universally recognized. This distinction is that "nought" is primarily used in a ...
Some spelling errors are introduced because the typing of certain people is not perfect, such as letters are doubled, or more frequently double letters tripled, such as "betwween" and "betweeen" letters are singled, such as "betwen" keys are transposed, so "because" becomes "becuase". (see Teh)
When reading numbers in a sequence, such as a telephone or serial number, British people will usually use the terms double followed by the repeated number. Hence 007 is double oh seven. Exceptions are the emergency telephone number 999, which is always nine nine nine and the apocalyptic "Number of the Beast", which is always six six six.
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At the bottom is See also Latin script letter names, then a link to each one. But the very first one, ei (the supposed spelling of A) takes me to a page that doesn't mention it at all. The third one is cee (for C), which spelling surprised me, I must say. There don't seem to be sources for the spellings, so I cannot say how canonical they are.
Spell out: Used to indicate that an abbreviation should be spelled out, such as in its first use stet: Let it stand: Indicates that proofreading marks should be ignored and the copy unchanged tr: transpose: Transpose the two words selected wf: Wrong font: Put text in correct font ww [3] Wrong word: Wrong word used (e.g. to/too)