Still 20 usually, believe it or not

We in 2023 don’t say it at all because you literally never need it in day to day use

I don‘t think there is much potential for confusion. The fact that you can easily spot wrong usage of the words even if they‘re used explicitely against definition proves that they can be distinguished based on context alone. Although I‘d be happy to see a scenario where confusion arises.

You are right though that established definitions and rules might influence the Development. Back when people had no school and no one to tell them how language was supposed to work they probably were way more accepting of other ways to use language. On the other hand, in my mother language I saw wrong grammar being established as the Norm within my lifetime (which is not much) and the teaching changing accordingly. So I‘m not convinced that established rules really have any control.

How about breathing, sleeping, waking up, standing, sitting, breathing, living, taking a shower, playing an instrument, writing, drawing, painting (not the one that has extreme fumes that could kill an allergic person), petting your pet, talking, opening the fridge, getting bonked at the head by a newspaper or a plastic bottle, waving, punching the air, looking up, down, and left to right, typing, looking at a picture?

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In Dutch W is called 'Way' but with a slightly different mouth placement. Say 'Way', but when making the w sound, shape your mouth as if you're going to say 'F*ck'.

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If you're in a latrine, that's not fresh air.

Same in Spanish (doble V o doble uve)

Pics or it didn't happen.

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In Dutch we say either iegrek (don't know if that's how you spell it, but that's how you pronounce it) or Griekse IJ (Greek Y, except we use the other Y sound which you get by writing ij)

At least, in norwegian we call it a Double V. It serves no purpose outside english words and a few names where it's pronounced identically to V

Spanish uses the same alphabet with the additions of "CH" "LL," "RR" and "Ñ" moron.

English is (as far as i know) the only language that does this double u bullshit. Just call it the wee or so

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From what I've seen in tech, and everywhere else in the world, the W's aren't really used anymore, it's just whatever-dot-com

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Fun fact: you just ran through the alphabet in your head to double check.

We in tech call it "dub-dub-dub"

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Can confirm, I went through the entire alphabet in my head to check this.

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