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Robert Brunskill wrote:
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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.
How odd. How do Spanish people play "punch bug?" "Hey look, there's
another Five."
--
Thomas Main
main@appstate.edu
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> Rob
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> In article <374048FA.4774BE47@appstate.edu>, Thomas Main <main@appstate.edu>
> wrote:
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> > 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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| Thomas Main wrote in message <3741C0D7.61E1C501@a...te.edu>... (...) Maybe they don't. We don't have "w" in our alphabet, and I don't know anything about what the "punch bug" is..:-) (we several other letters by the way : Öö, Çç, Üü, and others (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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 ---...--- (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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