Contemplating the Mysteries of the World - Part 2: The Letter W

So I cannot take full credit for this topic. I was talking to my friend and she said something about this, and it has been bothering me ever since. There are 26 letters in the English alphabet. When we say the letters out loud, 25 of them are one syllable. Then there is the letter "W", which is not one, not two, but three syllables. It is annoyingly long and it bothers me that this is okay to most people. What really bothers me is that I was okay with this until I really thought about it. It isn't really something that people realize until it is mentioned to them, so you are welcome if this bothers you now.

Let me get into the more common complaint that people have about the letter "W". It is said "double u" but is most commonly written as "double v". Even this font that I am typing in now, the English word for "w" makes no since. In French, the letter is pronounced "dublave" or "double v", which make so much more sense. It is also not the only letter that isn't one syllable in the French language, but I will not start talking about that again. Okay, I think I am done ranting about a letter in our alphabet.

Thank you for your cooperation,

Rosie.