>Hilmar,
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>My youngest boy, who has just started school, recently asked me why it's called a "double-u" when it looks like a "double-v"?
That is because in the antique (ancient Latin, I think), there was no distinction between "u" and "v".
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
