--- Nicholas Bodley <nbodley@...> wrote: >
2003-01-24 06:17:50, Michael Everson

> <everson@...>
> wrote:
> >>Also "double V" in Spanish.
> >
> >"Uve doble".
>
> Interesting. I'm almost positive that (in the
> Eastern USA, at least), it's spoken as"doble ve";
> that is not to invalidate your form, of course. I'll
> listen, next time I hear a station break in Spanish.
> Our eastern station call letters start with W. (W
> was for Westinghouse, and K (Western USA) was for
> Kaiser, I have heard.)

In Mexico it was always pronounced as "doble ewe" (if
I spell it for English-speakers to read).

Andrew Dunbar.

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