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In fairness, I'm Welsh, and I'd reject someone from Cwmbran too 🤷🏻♂️
Is it infamous somehow?
C W M B R? I mean come on! Even the Welsh are like THAT NEEDS 22 OTHER LETTERS IN IT BEFORE THE ONLY VOWEL !!!
JFYI, w is a vowel in Welsh.
that alone!!!!
It’s called double U.
Only the French (afaik, I'm not a polyglot) get it right, they call it 'double V'
In germany it is called W, pronounced [veː], non of that doubl bullshit, just it's own letter.
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Also Spanish
Just as in Hungarian, duplavé FTW
And Finnish. And probably many many more since that's what it is.
For most of the history of the Latin alphabet, there was no distinction between U and V.
More like Double Eww amirite?
Not particularly, it's just one of those taking the piss out of the neighbours jokes. Wales is small enough that we're all close enough to be neighbours :)
Yep. According to a quick search, Massachusetts is a wee bit larger in area, but has almost exactly the same amount of coastline. Had no clue Wales was so small.
Isn't that when a whole bunch of Welsh just showed up out of nowhere 538 million years ago?
Do dynowelsh eat onions?
No, they exploded, as the Welsh are wont to do.