From Peter Banks
Sarawak, Malaysia
As Julian Weaver
(Letters, 20/27 December, p 81)
says, “w” is pronounced
“double-u”, but surely that leads to “sex[tuple]-u” not “hex-u”.
After experimenting with “tribble-ja” (a derivative of schooldays “dub-ja”
for the letter) I now prefer the term “wibble-u”, though I do note that
“way-way-way” is being used in this region—possibly derived from the
Indonesian pronunciation of the letter which is “way”. A variant on that is
“three ways”.
