double-u

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle English doble 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 in blue) is doubtlessly due to the letter U's name. For colloquial pronunciations without /l/, compare Straya.

Pronunciation

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

double-u (plural double-ues)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter W/w.
  2. Alternative name of the Latin-script digraph *UU*.
  3. (euphemistic) The WC; the toilet.
    • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 234:
      She would try the front door, and try the back door, and look in the windows; and once she even looked in the double-u.

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