Double-U.  Why is the letter W the only letter in the alphabet with more than one syllable?  Why?  For some reason, this is one of those things that I think about and have thought about for some time now.  It keeps me up at night.  I’m not joking.  Ask my wife.

To rectify, I’ve come up with a solution.  My proposal is simple.  Rename the letter W from double-u to just dub.  Dub.  Rolls off the tongue doesn’t it?  This one syllable wonder is just what our alphabet needs to bump it up to alphabet 2.0.  It’s not that far off the mark currently either.  In today’s 2.0 world, programmers and web saavy users already refer to W as dub.  It is much easier to say dub dub dub dot google dot com, than it is to say double-u double-u double-u dot google dot com.  So who’s with me?  Let’s get rid of the double-u that our grandparents grew up with and change it so that it fits the technology world our children will inherit.

And with this new change, can we please STOP teaching our kids the alphabet as a song.   To this fucking day, I cannot say the letters of the alphabet without singing them to a nursery rhyme!  And what the fuck is “ell-a-menno”?  How intelligent does that come across?  But that’s another rant altogether that I just do not have time for today.

So remember, it’s now dub, NOT double-u.