More than TWO!!!!

As promised the W-Wednesday. Which words does this Wednesday warrant? Well, some wish for wonderful things and some want realism. So I decided to start with a definition of W = double u... :wink:

Columbia Encyclopedia:
W, 23d letter of the alphabet, in form a doubled u or v. It is the usual symbol of a voiced bilabial semivowel, as in the English wing. The same semivowel occurs as second member of the dipthongs au (as in house), ō, and oo͞. In twice the w represents a voiceless semivowel, which is heard also in some dialects that distinguish between where and wear.

Wikipedia:
"Double U" is the only English letter name with more than one syllable. This gives the nine-syllable initialism www the irony of being an abbreviation that takes more syllables to say than the unabbreviated form. A few speakers therefore shorten the name "double u" into "dub" only, although this is rather rare and nonstandard; for example, University of Washington is known colloquially as "U Dub". In the Texas dialect of American English, the name is often condensed to two syllables rather than three, resulting in George W. Bush's nickname of "Dubya".

Various Definitions from Wikipedia:
• In radiocommunication, W is one of the ITU prefixes allocated to the United States. W is generally used as the first letter of call signs allocated to broadcast television or radio stations east of the Mississippi river.
• In astronomy, W stands for a November 16 through 30 discovery, in the provisional designation of a comet (e.g. C/1984 W2, Comet Hartley) or asteroid (e.g. (4035) 1986 WD).
• In biochemistry, W is the symbol for tryptophan.
• In computing, ^W is often used jokingly to indicate the intended deletion of the previous word. This is because in some programs (e.g., many Unix shells) the keystroke control-W is used to delete the previous word.
- w is a command on Unix systems that displays information on users who are currently logged in. It is the only one-letter Unix command.
- W is the name of a graphical windowing system for Unix platforms.
• In film, W is the name of a 1973 American film; see W (film)

And for a sentence:
George "Dubya" Bush should be lynched/swing for just being an idiot, in addition to mis-leading the country into war and further ignoring the real issues that face America. Tarred and feathered I say. You could have learned that when he was gubner.

"I am a man of constant sorrow... i seen trouble all my days... " whistles while she works at being well adjusted in the dubya administration. :wink:

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