I've once sailed a smaller boat with a centerboard that didn't release. So similar to not having a rudder. Quite scary, everything else have a backup, but without that thing sticking out below the boat you're just drifting aimlessly around.
It was a Swedish warship that sank on her maiden voyage in 1628 after making it less than a mile (1,3 km). It was salvaged in 1961 and is today one of Sweden's most famous tourist attractions.
You may want to find a good therapist, this is classic Stockholm Syndrome.
*Vasa
Do you have any idea of why the spelling was changed if you look in older texts a lot of the time Wasa was was used.
> Usage of the letters ⟨v⟩ and ⟨w⟩ was, as long as the Fraktur typeface was used, guided by the typeface. In Fraktur, ⟨w⟩ was used as a rule to indicate the sound [v], except for in loanwords of Latin or Romance origin, when ⟨v⟩ was used. In SAOL 1874-1900, which were not printed in Fraktur, the number of words using ⟨w⟩ was very small, and primarily tied to names (clown, darwinism, schweizeri). (...) The attempt to remove ⟨w⟩ was further evident in the 1923 edition. Since 1950 however, the use of ⟨w⟩ in loanwords has been more acceptable, as the number of loanwords has increased. Since 2006, ⟨w⟩ constitutes an individual letter of the alphabet in SAOL, sorted separately from ⟨v⟩.
One rationalization I think we can be pretty happy about today that the article mentions is that [f,fv,hv] which all produced the same sound were unified into simply "v" in schools in the early 1900s.
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The W sound was lost centuries ago but reintroduced with English words.
In other words, this is a correctly alphabetically ordered list:
Wasa
Virtanen
Wiva
Viwe
There’s probably still plenty of SQL installations around using the old collation rules because tables were created before the 2006 change reached database software.
Also in Finnish ÅÄÖ are the end of alphabet.
Also Ü and Ű would should be grouped with Y. Õ and Ő with Ö.
If you look at older phone books and dictionaries until the 1990s at least, you’ll find that V and W are combined.
There are common surnames in Finland that retain the V/W spelling equivalence, like Virtanen and Wirtanen. When they are grouped together (as they traditionally were), it’s easier to find a person by name because you don’t need to know which way it’s spelled.
If they'd pronounced it "Let's meet up in the fillage" that would make sense as they'd be using the German pronunciation of "v", but I couldn't wrap my head around "willage".
I speak from experience…
Edit to add: she’s German, we laugh about it.
Anecdotally, I once spoke with Russian students (this was long ago) who insisted that there was a Russian 'v/w' sound in the word Berenburg (the name of a distilled spirit). I couldn't hear it...
But in this context, the "v" we're talking about is the English IPA /'v/ (e.g. valley /ˈvæli/) vs. IPA /w/ (e.g. wool, IPA /wʊl/) and that difference is far less noticeable.
For an English speaker, to put it differently, while the words as a whole are not pronounced exactly the same, the starting sound of German "Volk" is the same as for English "folk", while the starting sound of "Wolke" is the same as for "valley".
Depending on the word, in German a "v" is either pronounced like "f" or "w", e.g.
[der] Vogel -> "Fogel"
[die] Vase -> "Wase"
A rule of thumb that I heard is that if a German word is of French origin and starts with V, the V is pronounced like W, otherwise like F.
I guess you mean the German F and W! That way it's clear.
That's a cool story.
I can confirm. I mean, the "proper" pronunciation is dubbel-vee-dubbel-vee-dubbel-vee, but we can't be bothered to say all that so we just say vee-vee-vee.
I also think "double-v" is a better name for the letter w than "double-u" is.
I think I have also heard dub-dub-dub dot etc.