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Only one letter of the English alphabet has more than one syllable, and it has three.
We should have named it u-two or to be more shape accurate, v-2.
If you were wondering, it got named "double u" when u and v were the same letter, V was used at the beginning of words and u ain the middle/end. It wasn't till much later they were seperated into 2 glyphs for different sounds.
In German it's called a Doppel-Vau, with Vau being the letter V.
In Dutch it's just called wee, none of this double bullshit
In German it's V = Fau, W = Vee.
Huh. I learned doppel-fau in high school. Could it be that both terms are used?
No. Romance languages use variations of double V but not German
No, I'm not aware of any dialect that does and standard German definitely doesn't use it.