Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info>:But when you get down to fundamentals, character sets and alphabets have always blurred the line between presentation and meaning. W ("double-u") was, once upon a time, UU
And before that, it was VV, because the Romans used V the way we now use U, and didn't have a letter U. When U first appeared, it was just a cursive style of writing a V. According to this, it wasn't until the 18th century that the English alphabet got both U and V as separate letters: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=147677 Apparently "uu"/"vv" came to be known as "double u" prior to that, and the name has persisted. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
