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minus-squareMrAlternateTape@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up14·5 months agoIn Dutch www is faster. Never understood why one would give a letter a name that consists of 2 parts.
minus-squaregentooer@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoIn Flanders (at least where I’m at) we usually say I grec, but when doing math or reciting the alphabet, we say IJ.
minus-squareZarlin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoUsually same as our compound letter “ij”, similar but not quite how you’d prononuce the word “eye”. Less commonly it’s pronounced as “i-grec” (greek i) or “ypsilon”.
minus-squareObi@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoi-grec (but English sound for “e” just like in Dutch) is the French way as well.
minus-squareMrAlternateTape@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoWe say it just like I wrote it, as one word. Although some people use Griekse IJ, which is also two words.
minus-squareFizz@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoI don’t get why w is called double u when it’s clearly a double v
In Dutch www is faster. Never understood why one would give a letter a name that consists of 2 parts.
how do you pronounce Y ?
In Flanders (at least where I’m at) we usually say I grec, but when doing math or reciting the alphabet, we say IJ.
Usually same as our compound letter “ij”, similar but not quite how you’d prononuce the word “eye”. Less commonly it’s pronounced as “i-grec” (greek i) or “ypsilon”.
i-grec (but English sound for “e” just like in Dutch) is the French way as well.
Sound like igrek.
it’s two words (“i graeca”)
We say it just like I wrote it, as one word. Although some people use Griekse IJ, which is also two words.
and how would you say xyz ?
I don’t get why w is called double u when it’s clearly a double v