The war– part is probably a contraction of “work.” 6. WardayĪ warday (pronounced so that “war” rhymes with “bar,” not “core”) is simply a weekday. As a verb, wamble means “to feel nauseated,” or, figuratively, “to turn over and over.” 5. in the 19th century, wamble-cropped means sick to your stomach. Wamble-CroppedĪn old 16th-century dialect word that spread to the U.S. Figuratively, you can also use this one to mean a thin or meager-looking person, or as a nickname for someone who always appears shabbily or untidily dressed. The youngest or last-hatched bird in a brood is the wallydrag or wally-draigle. Wag-pasty is an old Tudor word for a “mischievous rogue,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Wag-FeatherĪn old slang name for a foolish, swaggering, braggish person. And that’s without adding any of these to your vocabulary … 1. Today, the letter W accounts for just under 2 percent of all English language writing, but thanks to the high frequency of words like was, will, with, were, which, would, who, what, where, when, and why, you can expect W to be the first letter of roughly one in every 20 of the words you use every day.
It's this history that gives W the longest name of any letter of the English language-and also means that the acronym www uniquely contains three times more syllables than it does letters. Eventually, these two ran together into one single character, W, which has remained in use to this day. Originally, the ancient Germanic languages of Europe didn’t have a letter to adequately represent their “w” sound (the labio-velar approximant, if you want to get technical), so instead it was represented by two consecutive letter Us or Vs.
W is called “double-U” because it was once precisely that.
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