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W is the twenty-third letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is pronounced double-u."W" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993). History The earliest form of the letter W was a doubled V used in the 7th century by the earliest writers of Old English; it is from this digraph that the modern name "double U" comes. This digraph was not extensively used, as its sound was usually represented instead by the runic wynn (), but W gained popularity after the Norman Conquest, and by 1300 it had taken wynn's place in common use. Other forms of the letter were a pair of Vs whose branches cross in the middle. An obsolete, cursive form found in the nineteenth century in both English and German was in the form of an "n" whose rightmost branch curved around as in a cursive "v" (compare the shape of ).

Discography

Technical Difficulties, Under The Influence...


JOY 1 MULTIPLEX  TTM-087


Watershed


This Marriage


Siegel: Devil's Golf Course


System of Alive


Cassations (2)/Adagio & Fugue


Second Nature


Christmas Love


Mozart: Serenata Notturna / Maag, London Symphony Orchestra


Fourth from the Last


Bossa Supernova



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