w is such a badly named letter, why did we have to get rid of ƿ

@Felthry In English it really is.

(But then in Dutch both names I know for "y" translates to "Greek {ij/ei}"

@BatElite what's w called in dutch?

@Felthry spelled out it's "wee", which is pronounced as "way" in English except that we use a different sound for w. (using whatever linguistics-speak is for "upper teeth against lower lip" rather than the sort of modified o from English. It basically gets rid of a sort of h sounds that you get with an "English" w)

You probably know that part better than I do though. ^^;
(I looked at IPA earlier today and it looks awfully difficult help.)

@BatElite it's the same sound as v is in english, right?

@Felthry I It's not quite the same I think, but close? I *think* v is the same across Dutch and English.

@BatElite I know that w in German is the same sound as v in english, and I had thought that german and dutch shared that bit of orthography but perhaps not!

@Felthry TBH I only spent an inordinate amount of time privately thinking about the differences in w between English and Dutch, I might not know German pronunciation well enough to compare. ^^;

@BatElite we mostly know the German one because there are a lot of German names that come up in physics and mathematics, many of which start with w