not in the Roman alphabet, but the Modern English sound it represents is close to the devocalized consonant expressed by Roman -U- or -V-. In Old English, this originally was written -uu-, but by 8c. began to be expressed by the runic character wyn (Kentish wen), which looked like this: ƿ (the character is a late addition to the online font set and doesn't display properly on many computers, so it's something like a combination of lower-case -p- and a reversed -y-). In 11c., Norman scribes introduced -w-, a ligatured doubling of Roman -u- which had been used on the continent for the Germanic "w" sound, and wyn disappeared c. 1300. -W- is not properly a letter in the modern French alphabet, and it is used there only in borrowed foreign words, such as wagon, weekend, Western, whisky, wombat.
双语例句
1. To close your document, press CTRL+W on your keyboard.
关闭文件时要同时按键盘上的CTRL键和W键。
来自柯林斯例句
2. George W. Bush carried the state with 56 percent of the vote.
乔治·W.布什在该州以56%的得票率获胜。
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3. Ayer started N. W. Ayer & Son in 1869, naming the firm for his father.
艾尔在1869年成立了N.W.艾尔父子公司，公司以他父亲的名字命名。
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4. The vacant W.B.C. junior-lightweight title has been called off.
空缺的世界拳击理事会次轻量级头衔被取消了。
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5. W. Somerset Maugham's novel still packs an emotional punch.
