Re: "UU" specimen? (Was: Re: RE: Mayan numerals)

Nicholas Bodley wrote:

> 2003-01-22 05:02:11, Marco Cimarosti
> <marco.cimarosti@...> wrote:
> [...]
> >with other archaisms, such as the use of all capitals and
> "V" standing for "U".
>
> Could some kind soul tell me (without doing research) where I
> might find (online, very preferably) a specimen of text in
> which "UU" literally represents a letter "W"? I once saw
> such, but lost track.

See plenty lowercase "uu"'s here:

http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/germanica/Chronologie/09Jh/Heliand/hel_hf0
1.html

The uppercase form seems to be "Uu" (see line 85). That's quite strange: I
would have expected "Vu" in a document of that age.

> Considering how universal the spoken name of the letter W is,
> [...]

Universal? I don't know any other language apart English that calls that
letter "double U". In Italian and French, it is called "double V", while in
German it is called just "V".

_ Marco