>>>And someone tell them on ER that it takes less time to say 'gun shot wound' than it does to say 'gee-ess-double-u'
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>>My mother had already complained years ago about the acronym, WWF, being much longer than "World Widelife Fund" (7 syllables instead of 4). (The organization was later renamed to "World-Wide Fund for Nature", maintaining the TLA).
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>Generally I ouish that "W" ouould just go aouay (or be called "wee", like "vee"). Oue don't need it - oue could replace it with "ou" :-)

You should hear spelling in my language - it's equal to pronunciation, so you basically say each sound in turn. The funny turn is when we start using it for foreign languages - which all kids do in school. Believe me, after about 40 years since I learned to speak English, I'm still bad (or just slow) with spelling, because I never had to practice it. This is so much faster.

As for the few characters that we don't have, it's either their (German) names, or how they sound: q - ku, x - iks, y - ipsilon, w - dubl ve. However, within our family, we've turned them phonetic too: q - cue, x - ks, y - ü (we do pronounce it with the umlaut, so everyone knows it's the character like the cyrillic y just not the same one), and w - w. W can be pronounced, no problem there.