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Re: No W
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 17 May 1999 20:05:43 GMT
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I believe it is the case that several European languages don't have the
letter 'W'. I know it isn't in the Spanish language.
Rob
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In article <374048FA.4774BE47@appstate.edu>, Thomas Main <main@appstate.edu>
wrote:
> I was looking through the 226 Idea Book from 1982 the other day and
> noticed something odd. There is a page which suggests making letters
> and numbers from Lego bricks. On two different examples the "W" is left
> out. Possible explanations:
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> There is no "W" in the Danish alphabet.
> The "W" is too wide to model in Lego.
> The "W" was the first letter to disappear from the minifig alphabet.
> Subsequent generations dropped more and more letters, causing the
> keyboard of today to have so few letters.
>
> --
> Thomas Main
> main@appstate.edu
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