W, w - Gyldendal - Den Store Danske". Den Store Danske. Archived from the original on September 4, 2017 . Retrieved November 7, 2017. In Italian, while the letter ⟨w⟩ is not considered part of the standard Italian alphabet, the character is often used in place of Viva (hooray for...), generally in the form in which the branches of the Vs cross in the middle, at least in handwriting (in fact it could be considered a monogram). [13] The same symbol written upside down indicates abbasso (down with...) In Indonesian, the letter "w" is called wé. The letter names in Indonesian are always the same with the sounds they produce, especially the consonants. Why is 'w' pronounced 'double u' rather than 'double v'?: Oxford Dictionaries Online". Oxforddictionaries.com. Archived from the original on August 22, 2016 . Retrieved November 4, 2011.

W is the symbol for the chemical element tungsten, after its German (and alternative English) name, Wolfram. [26] It is also the SI symbol for the watt, the standard unit of power. It is also often used as a variable in mathematics, especially to represent a complex number or a vector. a b Zingarelli, Nicola (1945). Vocabolario della lingua italiana (7ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli. p.1713. W is a British free-to-air television channel owned by BBC Studios. It originally launched on 7 October 2008 as Watch and until 2022 was a pay television channel. [1] On 15 February 2016, the channel was rebranded as W. [2] The channel currently broadcasts crimes, dramas, game shows and documentaries. Ataman, Ferda (October 14, 2009). "Zweijähriger Kurde wird wegen Vornamens staatenlos". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). ISSN 1865-2263. Archived from the original on January 18, 2022 . Retrieved January 17, 2022. Othmann, Ronya. "Kolumne "Import Export": Bei X, Q, W ins Gefängnis". FAZ.NET (in German). ISSN 0174-4909. Archived from the original on January 18, 2022 . Retrieved January 17, 2022.

Let the pretending to be injured begin". No-sword.jp. June 10, 2006. Archived from the original on July 21, 2011 . Retrieved November 4, 2011. Volkswagen. "VW Unpimp – Drop it like its hot". YouTube. Archived from the original on May 2, 2006 . Retrieved November 3, 2011. The following languages historically used ⟨w⟩ for /v/ in native words, but later replaced it by ⟨v⟩: Swedish, Finnish, Czech, Slovak, Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Ukrainian Łatynka and Belarusian Łacinka. It is also used in modern systems of Romanization of Belarusian for the letter ⟨ ў⟩, for example in the BGN/PCGN [7] system, in contrast to the letter ⟨ ŭ⟩, which is used in the Instruction on transliteration of Belarusian geographical names with letters of Latin script.

VIỆT NAM, ĐẢNG CỘNG SẢN. "Hệ thống văn bản". dangcongsan.vn (in Vietnamese). Archived from the original on July 3, 2017 . Retrieved July 4, 2017.In Swedish and Finnish, traces of this old usage may still be found in proper names. In Hungarian remains in some aristocratic surnames, e.g. Wesselényi.

UKTV confirmed the rumours that the W channel was going to rebrand as a free-to-air channel on 28 March 2022 at 6:00am. To coincide with the move, channel bosses unveiled a new logo and "Life Unfiltered" strapline which they say will help the channel connect with its female skewing 25-44 target audience. [20] Logo history [ edit ] Arm w ist so unmer und unbekannt, dasz man schier weder seinen namen noch sein gestalt waiszt, die Lateiner wöllen sein nit, wie sy dann auch sein nit bedürffen, so wissen die Teütschen sonderlich die schülmaister noch nitt was sy mit im machen oder wie sy in nennen sollen, an ettlichen enden nennet man in we, die aber ein wenig latein haben gesehen, die nennen in mit zwaien unterschidlichen lauten u auff ainander, also uu ... die Schwaben nennen in auwawau, wiewol ich disen kauderwelschen namen also versteh, das es drey u sein, auff grob schwäbisch au genennet." cited after Grimm, Deutsches Wörterbuch. In Dutch, ⟨w⟩ became a labiodental approximant /ʋ/ (with the exception of words with - ⟨eeuw⟩, which have /eːβ/, or other diphthongs containing - ⟨uw⟩). In many Dutch-speaking areas, such as Flanders and Suriname, the /β/ pronunciation (or in some areas a /ɥ/ pronunciation, e.g. Belgian-Dutch water /'ɥa:tər/ "water", wit /ɥɪt/ "white", eeuw /e:ɥ/ "century", etc.) is used at all times. Double-ues is the plural of the name of the letter; the plural of the letter itself is written W's, Ws, w's, or ws.Everson, Michael; etal. (March 20, 2002). "L2/02-141: Uralic Phonetic Alphabet characters for the UCS" (PDF). Unicode.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 19, 2018 . Retrieved January 15, 2020. Uralic Phonetic Alphabet-specific symbols related to W: [30] U+1D21 ᴡ LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL W and U+1D42 ᵂ MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL W UKTV unveils new channel brands!". Archived from the original on 12 July 2008 . Retrieved 10 July 2008. In Vietnamese, ⟨w⟩ is called vê đúp, from the French double vé. It is not included in the standard Vietnamese alphabet, but it is often used as a substitute for qu- in literary dialect and very informal writing. [20] [21] It's also commonly used for abbreviating Ư in formal documents, for example Trung Ương is abbreviated as TW [22] even in official documents and document ID number [23]

The Japanese language uses "W", pronounced daburu, as an ideogram meaning "double". [14] It is also used in internet slang to indicate laughter (like LOL), derived from the word warau (笑う, meaning "to laugh"). It is from this ⟨uu⟩ digraph that the modern name "double U" derives. The digraph was commonly used in the spelling of Old High German but only in the earliest texts in Old English, where the /w/ sound soon came to be represented by borrowing the rune ⟨ᚹ⟩, adapted as the Latin letter wynn: ⟨ƿ⟩. In early Middle English, following the 11th-century Norman Conquest, ⟨uu⟩ regained popularity; by 1300, it had taken wynn's place in common use.a b Berry, John. "A History: English round hand and 'The Universal Penman' ". Typekit. Adobe Systems. Archived from the original on October 3, 2020 . Retrieved May 19, 2020. During May 2010, UKTV were reportedly planning to overhaul the brand identity of Watch, after only eighteen months in operation. The broadcaster held a branding agency pitch and made an appointment within a month, with the review was being handled by creativebrief. The work included the creation of a fresh logo, strap-line and tone of voice for the channel, however, a spokeswoman for UKTV denied suggestions that the broadcaster would change the name of the channel and said that the overhaul was about "tweaking the brand and aligning it better with our overall strategy". [10]