Looking for adjectives that start with "w?" The letter "w" has a long history as a confused letter. When the Greeks borrowed the letter from the ancient Egyptians — who used the letter as a hieroglyph that represented a snake — they gave "w" to two letters in their alphabet.

The Greeks used "w" as the basis for both an F-type letter, and a U-type letter. When the Romans then borrowed the letter from the Greeks, they made things even more confusing by using "w" interchangeably with "u" and "v."

Sometime after the middle ages, "u" and "v" evolved into their own letters in the English language. Today, "w" firmly represents just the "w" sound in English but, in many foreign languages, "w" is still pronounced as "v" and vice versa. German is a good example of this.

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