Why is this thing pronounced as "double-u" in English?

Why is this thing pronounced as "double-u" in English?
First of all, it's not even a double-u, but a double-v.
Secondly, why can't you just pronounce it as "wee" like any other language in the world?

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Cuz V and U weren't separate letters until the end of the middle ages.

>Expecting logic, rhyme and reason in the English language
Kek

But what about the 2nd point

>pronounce it as "wee" like any other language in the world
Y-yeah

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Most of the cvilized countries call it double-v and they don't it. Also using W instead of V is Germanic autism.

We say double v here

>Secondly, why can't you just pronounce it as "wee" like any other language in the world?
which one? mostly Germanic languages pronounce V as "F" in English, and following your logic it must be saying "fee"

ph = f
what the fuck is up with that

We call it "double u" here, but in english. "Dáblio".
It wasn't part of the portuguese alphabet actually so we treated it just like that, a foreign letter. In fact it's only been officially in our alphabet since 2009, along with k and y.

Blame the Greeks.

>why can't you just pronounce it as "wee" like any other language in the world?
Right haha
Totally makes that "ł" sound

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We don't even use it but it's in our alphabet. Using foreign letters in loanwords is cuckoldry.

Phuck you Phinland

We don't use x,y and w.

Blow it out your ass

How many Frenchoid throats do I have to slit before silent letters aren't a thing anymore

says the anglo

We have very few silent letters. One example would be "psychology", but we gained that word from French, so again the French are to blame. Or of course you could blame the Ancient Greeks, since that's where the word originally comes from.

In contrast, French has TONS of silent letters, mostly at the ends of words.

Pretty much every word starting with kn has a silent k, e.g. knight -> nite
H is usually silent too, hour -> our, what -> wat
W, wreck -> reck

Admit it, there's a bunch.

the k was originally hard in knight but bent southern fairies ruined it