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Recommended for readers who enjoy fascinating deep dives into the history of odd letters and the alphabet.
jan Misali traces the history of the letter W, including why it is called double u. The video is part of a series of deep dives into individual letters.
“If you're interested in fascinating deep dives into the history of a few odd letters” (HN, 2023)
Folks reading this thread would likely appreciate this video on the history of C: [link] It goes into a lot of these evolutionary stages. And the history of W: [this video]
If you're interested in fascinating deep dives into the history of a few odd letters, the jan Misali channel on Youtube has a video on the letter W (which, along the way, covers F and Y) and another one on the letter C. w: [this video] c: [link]
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