Gussa-Merry-Mingo-Pip-Perry-Pingo is the name of the little old man who looks after the aitch-oh-vee-ee-ar-cee-ay-ar-pee-ee-tee-blank-ar-eye-dee-ee-ess.
2016 CCEB,Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), p. 3-5
RV [is spoken] as "ar-vee" instead of "I SPELL Romeo Victor".
Something with the shape of the letter V.
1989, Grant Naylor,Red Dwarf:
One of [the men] took up both spaces on the pink sofa, while the other two drew up chairs from a nearby table and squeezed into them. The armrests were forced out into a tiredvee, to the accompaniment of an uneasy creaking sound.
2013, Nancy Springer,We Don't Know Why:
The river leapt and rippled like a lizard. Geese flew over in avee, crying to the sky.
2019 December 4, Philip Haigh, “Trains, tickets and tests: LNER outlines its targets”, inRail, page62:
York's new railway offices are rather smart, tucked into thevee of York South Junction where the freight lines diverge to avoid the station.
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FromSwedishve(“name of the letter V”). Similar names are also found in other European languages, such asEnglishvee,Frenchvé andLatvianvē. It is ultimately formed by analogy with Latin letter names such asbē for B, but it is unknown in which this language took place.
