Comment by whynotmaybe
Comment by whynotmaybe 8 days ago
W is fairly recent in the official French alphabet and its officially called "double v".
In Belgium it can be pronounced or heard as "way" (wé) usually for - BMW as "bay-hem-way" (bé-m-wé) - www as "way-way-way" (wé-wé-wé) - WC as "way-say" (wé-c) .
And it's so convenient, too! No letter thus requires several syllables to be pronounced.
It's one thing I keep using from Belgian French despite having lived in Switzerland for over a decade, because it's objectively better.
(Swiss French has the objectively better names for 70-80-90, though. No quatre-vingt-dix BS like on France. :-p)