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the part of you that wants to put U and V on the same key

@Satsuma i have to keep W separate as a matter of British pride

@Lady what does the uu have to do with British pride

@Satsuma no i meant on a separate key

british scribes are the ones who invented W as a separate letter (i’m saying british because i’m not clear on their exact “nationality” and it was probably a collaboration between the english and irish and welsh and cornish and who knows) [actually technically they first did UU and then they switched to Ƿ (from runic) but they switched BACK to UU when they dropped Þ and Ƿ from the alphabet but by that time it was so entrenched as a separate letter that it became W]; treating it as a mere variation of U would be an affront to the useful distinction they offered

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