Stéphane Charette 🇨🇦In English, W is pronounced "double u".
In French, W is pronounced "double v".
While I'm at it: in French, Y is pronounced "Greek i".
And don't get me started with "G" and "J", or "E" and "i" which are opposites in French and English.
Richard Nairn@charette I was once spelling out a password to a colleague in Quebec. It took us a bit to realize he was transcribing the wrong one due to the pronunciations.
@RichardNairn When my daughter was ~2, we were having a fancy dinner and she had a plastic cup. She kept asking for a glass, and we kept telling her that the glasses were for the adults while the children had plastic cups.
Turns out she was asking for "glace" -- which is the French word for ice -- to put in her cup.
English "glass" and French "glace" are pronounced the same.
Earl"Witches" used to be spelled with a double U.
