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double-u

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Etymology

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Inherited fromMiddle Englishdoble W, in reference to the letter's origins as a ligature of two Us or Vs (V originally being a typographical variant of U).

The failure of the sequence/bljuː/ to simplify in this word's bisyllabic pronunciation (as inblue) is doubtlessly due to the letter U's name. For colloquial pronunciations without/l/, compareStraya.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdʌbəljuː/,/ˌdʌb.əlˈjuː/,/ˈdʌbljuː/
  • (colloquial or in rapid speech)IPA(key): /ˈdʌbəjuː/,/ˈdʌbjuː/,/ˈdʌbjə/
  • Audio(General American):(file)

Noun

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double-u (pluraldouble-uesordouble-u's)

  1. The name of theLatin-script letterW/w.
  2. Alternative name of the Latin-script digraph⟨UU⟩.
  3. (euphemistic) TheWC; thetoilet.
    • 1974,GB Edwards,The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published2007, page234:
      She would try the front door, and try the back door, and look in the windows; and once she even looked in thedouble-u.

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name of the letter W, w
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