double-u

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• /ˈdʌb.(ə)l.juː/
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• /ˌdʌb.əlˈjuː/
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• colloquial: /ˈdʌb.ə.juː/ in rapid speech
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• colloquial: /ˈdʌb.juː/ in rapid speech
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• colloquial: /ˈdʌb.jə/ in rapid speech
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Inherited from Middle English doble W, in reference to the letter's origins as a ligature of two Us or Vs (V originally being a typographical variant of U). The failure of the sequence /bljuː/ to simplify in this word's bisyllabic pronunciation (as in blue) is doubtlessly due to the letter U's name. For colloquial pronunciations without /l/, compare Straya.

60 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Alabama: dabiyo — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Arabic: دَابِلْيُو (dabelyū) — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Arabic: دَابْلِيُو (dabliyū) — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Arabic: دوبلڤه — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Arabic: دُوبِلِڥِه (dubleveh) — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Asturian: uve doble — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Bengali: ডব্লিউ (ḍobliu) — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Bulgarian: дубъл-ве (dubǎl-ve) — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Burmese: ဒဗ္ဗလျူ (dabba.lyu) — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Catalan: ve doble — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Czech: dvojité vé — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Danish: dobbelt-v — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Dutch: wee — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Esperanto: duobla vo — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Esperanto: vavo — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Esperanto: vuo — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Esperanto: vu — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Esperanto: ĝermana vo — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Finnish: kaksoisvee — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• French: double vé — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• German: We — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Greek: ντάμπλ’γιου (ntámpl’giou) — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Hawaiian: wē — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Hindi: डब्ल्यू (ḍablyū) — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Hungarian: dupla vé — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Icelandic: tvöfalt vaff — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Ido: we — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Indonesian: we — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Irish: wae — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Italian: doppia vu — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Italian: vu doppia — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Japanese: ダブリュー (daburyū) — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Korean: 더블유 (deobeuryu) — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Korean: 다블유 (dabeuryu) — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Malay: dabliu — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Malay: dabel yu — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Marathi: डबल-यू (ḍabal-yū) — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Middle English: doble W — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Norwegian Bokmål: dobbelt-v — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Norwegian Nynorsk: dobbel-v — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Norwegian Nynorsk: dobbelt-v — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Occitan: ve dobla — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Polish: wu — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Portuguese: duplo vê — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Portuguese: dáblio — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Portuguese: dâblio — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Russian: да́бл-ю (dábl-ju) — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Russian: дубль-вэ́ (dublʹ-vɛ́) — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Spanish: doble ve — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Spanish: uve doble — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Spanish: ve dupla — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Spanish: ve doble — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Spanish: doble uve / u — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Spanish: u valona (disused) — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Swedish: dubbel-v — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Tagalog: dobolyu — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Tagalog: wa (Abakada) — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Thai: ดับเบิลยู (dàp-bə̂n-yuu) — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Thai: ดับบลิว (dàp-bliu) — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w
• Welsh: w — the name of the Latin-script letter W/w