Kosmosis on Nostr: But they don't have that letter sound normally right? They just use the letter to ...
But they don't have that letter sound normally right? They just use the letter to spell foreign words? So when they adopted the letter they named it how it looked.
When English invented the leter they called it double u and wrote it that way. uu. Printing press made vv the convention.
I'm going off memory here but I think I'm pretty close
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