How to pronounce the English letter w?

In all English variants, the pronunciation of W is double-U. However, because different English-speaking countries treat the phoneme variants of lingual /l/ differently, W will have two completely different pronunciations.

In British standard pronunciation, it is usually pronounced as /'d? b？ -lju:/； In most parts of North America and Australia, it will be pronounced /'d? b？ l-ju:/.

Sail gum approximation (commonly known as dark L) is a kind of consonant, which is used in some spoken languages. [? ] can mean soft palatalization [l? ] or throat wall [l? ]。 It is also usually odontoid process, odontoid process-gum or gum [l] (if odontoid process or odontoid process-gum, it can be spelled as [l] or [l] or []). It's a voiced consonant, just like the common gingival marginal sound.

In the NATO phonetic alphabet, the letter W is represented by whisky.

In the Swedish and Finnish alphabets, W is regarded as a hyphen consisting of two V's, rather than an independent letter. But it still remains in the name and is recognized, such as "William".

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W, like U and Y, is also derived from V. In fact, W is composed of double V, which should be read as double V..w is read as double U, because U and V were inseparable and interchangeable centuries before19th century. V is the symbol of V and U, and even when U is pronounced, it often becomes V. For example, upon is often spelled vpon. French letters such as doublé V/dubl? ve/ve .

W was originally used to indicate the connection of two V's. /w/ in Latin developed into /v/ in Roman, just like in romance novels, W was lost in German, which is why W in German means /v/ instead of /w/. In Dutch, w is an approximate word (except for words with eeuw, attack /-e:β/).

English is based on Germanic etymology. Although some scholars in18th century and19th century tried to apply French and ancient Latin grammar to English, they failed. Compared with all other Indo-European languages, English has less complicated inflections and almost lost all the yin-yang changes.

Basically, apart from personal pronouns, English has lost the distinction between sex and case, and it emphasizes the relatively fixed order of words, which means that English is developing in the direction of analytical language (for example, a cat's tail can be written as cat's tail instead of cat's tail, where the cat directly uses the root prototype without sticking cat's with case).

The basic word order of English is SVO, and it is basically impossible to change the word order at will, except in a few poems; On the other hand, sometimes English uses the word order of OSV.

References:

W (letter) _ Baidu Encyclopedia

English (Language) _ Baidu Encyclopedia