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

At 23:34 -0800 2003-01-23, Doug Ewell wrote:

>Marco Cimarosti <marco dot cimarosti at essetre dot it> wrote:
>
>> 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".
>
>Also "double V" in Spanish.

"Uve doble".
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