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Subject: 
Re: No W
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lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date: 
Tue, 18 May 1999 19:34:47 GMT
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Robert Brunskill wrote:

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


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:

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 (...) (26 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 ---...--- (...) (26 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.general)

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