The Letter W

I was driving into work listening to our local sports radio station, KNBR, with Gary Radnich and they were talking about Chris Webber coming back and possibly playing tonight with the Warriors. Then I started to think about the Warriors nickname, The Dubs. Then I started to think about, where did the letter W get that name – double-U? In cursive, the W would look like Two U’s joined together, hence, double-U. But then I went through the alphabet and pronounce each letter as how it is called AND used. For instance, A – Ah, B – Ba, C – Ca (but sometimes it could be S as in receive), and so on…. Until I came to the letter, W. Shouldn’t it be – Wouble-U? When have you ever heard the W word start off with at Duh sound? What isn’t pronounced, Duht?... but maybe it could and be a new language… hmmm.