wow
Only one letter of the English alphabet has more than one syllable, and it has three.
We should have named it u-two or to be more shape accurate, v-2.
Can’t. The band would sue.
And then would accidentally put music in your library.
If you were wondering, it got named “double u” when u and v were the same letter, V was used at the beginning of words and u ain the middle/end. It wasn’t till much later they were seperated into 2 glyphs for different sounds.
In German it’s called a Doppel-Vau, with Vau being the letter V.
In Dutch it’s just called wee, none of this double bullshit
In German it’s V = Fau, W = Vee.
Huh. I learned doppel-fau in high school. Could it be that both terms are used?
No, I’m not aware of any dialect that does and standard German definitely doesn’t use it.
No. Romance languages use variations of double V but not German
well yeah, you don’t speak with your mouth closed
Here i am, mouthing letters in the bathroom stall
I am also taking a shit and mouthing letters bro
Reached the letter o and got a surprise from the hole in the wall
Oh! Pee!
“Instructions unclear, started accidental glory hole”
I just BMPW’d while taking a shit as well
I too am delaying the wipe!
Something I noticed the other day. At least in the later seasons, the South Park lip sync matches the dialog so accurately, the mouth model shows the tongue only when the character is saying an L syllable
This is why mmm bop and mmm mmm mmm are perfect songs.
Oooonce, there was these kids who, made song called mmm bop just to ear worm you-oo
What is last one? B, m, p are obvious.
V.
Your lips don’t touch for V, it’s your top teeth to your bottom lip. If your lips touched, it’d be B.
W
When wording worries without end. No. Didn’t close even once.
You’re saying your Ws wrong.
The letter itself. Double you “w”
I took it as meaning the names. The b in double-u has your lips touch
5
Y?
(nvm, y in english has no p)
Mine slightly tough for f
For me (german native speaker, also trainee voice actor), f has my upper teeth on my lower lips while still leaving a gap to the upper lips
B M P W
I get 6, yours plus F and Y.
Y
Instead of W, you mean
Sometimes
Bruh what are you smoking? My lips don’t touch for W. They don’t even move half the time.
They do for double u
I’d argue ‘f’ they don’t press hard but they lightly touch
Bro what are you doing with your lips? “F” is top teeth on lower lip.
My front lip is over my teeth when I say it, and it is touching the bottom lip.
you can also form an /s/ with various parts of the tongue and mouth but it’s generally held to be an alveolar bladal fricative.
That would interrupt airflow would it not?
You don’t purse the lips together, they’re lightly touching allowing air to go through
Not if your lips just touch lightly in the middle and the air flows around the sides.
Maybe it’s a regional thing, but that’s also how I say that sound.
Could be regional yeah. Interesting!
Yeah - I mean, I can say an f-word like “fountain” without lowering my upper lip and (to my ears at least) it sounds almost the same if not identical, but I have to do it consciously and it feels unnatural.
What the pfuck are you pfrattling on about?
W still leaves an opening tho
It doesn’t say “no opening”, it just says “lips touch”. My lips can touch without completely closing.
They’re probably pronouncing it as “Double-U”…
well it only touches at the B sound and we already had B so…
How else is it pronounced?
just like in “We”
You don’t pronounce “we” as “double ue” do you?
as a phoneme, it’s a bilabial approximant - meaning the lips form the sound by moving close but not touching and then parting again
compare to the palatal approixmant /y/ formed by the root of the tongue performing a similar action with the soft palate.
Like … Have you ever read a word with w in it?
I kinda know what you are getting at - if you dictate a word by pronouncing each letter separately you need to add stuff to each one to make it stand out - but Jesus Christ, what a question.
Hodoubleu is the doublueather today? Only a fedoubleu oubleuhite clouds in a clear blue sky.
Thanks for making me laugh!
Edit: in German it is pronounced “we”, with the e like in ketchup.
I vote we change it in English to be pronounced like in German. It always bugged me that it’s the only multisyllabic letter name. Along the same lines, we should rename seven to sev.
The time save when pronouncing “www” is incredible. 🙃
I sometimes like reading or listening to stories of people scamming scammers. He used this exact thing to really confuse the scammer.
“Please type in double u double double u…”
“Alright, I typed in double u double u double… It says page not found” (i.e. uuuuuu)
I feel like double u is cheating since that’s just b again.
Its 5
I counted and my lips touch on B, F, M, P, W,
Edit: it’s actually 6 since Lips briefly touch for V
Ehh, V feels more like my bottom lip touching my teeth, not the lip
Tell us you have a speach impediment without telling us you have a speach impediment.
My lips definitely don’t touch on F or V, my upper teeth just touch my lower lip but upper lip is safe from contact.
W is because you say the name of the letter. If you were to produce the sound that the W is associated with, you won’t touch lips.
And I agree with the others, F and V are the lower lip meeting the upper teeth.
If your lips actually touch for f and v you’re saying them wrong lmao, it’s not “epp” and “bee” it’s “eff” and “vee.” As everyone else already said, your lips don’t touch, but your lower teeth should be touching your upper lip.
Well, I’ve never said eff as many times in a row as I have today now. Thanks.
I’m sure accent and dialect (within English) matter a lot.
For F my lips come close but blow out before touching. For V they come close but it’s my top teeth that touch my lip.
They are: K-I-S-S :-P
That’s wrong! There are only three bilabial letters! P, M, and B. F and V are labiodental
W
That’s labial velar approximate. We don’t say “bwatermelon” just because the letter is pronounced with a B
You’re right about how you would refer to each sound in use but the meme doesn’t say that there are 4 bilabials
doubleyouatermelon
What sorcery is this knowledge you speak of?
Phonetics.
What? Can you say the word double without your lips touching? I can’t
I don’t know what that means but it reminds me of the movie Teeth.
These indicate place of articulation of the sound that come out of your mouth. It’s one of 3 main ways to categorize consonants in linguistics, or more precisely in phonetics.
Bilabial consonants are made when both lips are touching for example, while labiodental consonants are made when lower lips are touching upper teeth.
What about W?
your lips dont touch for w
Mine do. I must be a freak of nature.
They do in American English at least
edit: I realize now you’re talking about its use within words, but a lot of us here assume that the meme is referring to saying each letter individually.
Yeah but thats the b in douBleyu
Double U has a B in it which causes your lips to touch
Same with dubya or dubyou.
But not in the W sound
I feel like W shouldn’t count since it’s basically just borrowing from B though.
Same with Y in German
Now I’m questioning why M has two syllables.
Emmuh
Emmuh
Dang
only in spanish.
VA. GI. NA
PE. NIS
