• Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 hours ago

    I like wxyz in french. I took french like 30 years ago but the alphabet was sticky and still gets lodged in my brain sometimes due to the last bit.

    (This is phonetics/pronunciation, ofc, same melody)

    Doobluh-vay (double v), eeks (x, but you saw a mouse), eegrek (???), zed (zed sounds much cooler than zee, which ironically sounds more French to me)

    Hands down the best part of the French alphabet.

    • Scrollone@feddit.it
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      3 hours ago

      I’m Italian and the letters sounds similar to French: doppia vu, ics, ipsilon, zeta. But the standard Italian alphabet only has 21 letters, and w, x and y are not part of the alphabet (together with j and k).

      By the way, the name of “y” in French means “greek i”