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Only the French (afaik, I'm not a polyglot) get it right, they call it 'double V'
For most of the history of the Latin alphabet, there was no distinction between U and V.
And Finnish. And probably many many more since that's what it is.
Also Spanish
In germany it is called W, pronounced [veː], non of that doubl bullshit, just it's own letter.
Yeah the double bullshit ruins the alphabet. It's much better to go ... T U V VE X Y Z.
Just as in Hungarian, duplavé FTW