W. It's a beautiful letter, don't you think? It is the star attraction in any attempt to gain information (who, what when, where, how). We need it for everything from Free Will to Free Willy.
Whatever. It's a good letter.
A good letter with a terrible name.
It is the only polysyllabic letter (doub-le-you). It is the only letter named after another letter. And rather uncreatively, too. "Oh, this thing looks like two Us. Whatever shall we call it?" It prevents the out-loud spelling of certain, mostly non-English in origin, words and names. APPLE = A-double-P-L-E. VACUUM = V-A-C-U-U-M. Spell vacuum with a double U and people will freak out and civilisation will end.
So I propose a renaming of the valient letter. Shrinking it down to a single syllable. My first thought was "dub", but that is bad for so many reasons. One is it reminds me of a certain president. The other is that all other letters, when their pronounciaton is spelled out, contains the letter itself. (H = aich, M = em, etc).
My proposal: W = wub.
Seriously. Wub. Rhymes with "bub" or "sub". Wub.
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Remember, you read it first here. Future historians, take note. I invented wub.