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Abrac- I guess I'm not making myself clear. Can you give me specific references where you think the W's look like upside-down M's please.
These cases show Pamela's W's are not upside-down M's:
Look closely at the W in the titles WANDS & SWORDS or WORLD, TOWER and WHEEL OF FORTUNE. They are the same W, looks nothing like the M's she uses for EMPRESS, MAGICIAN or HERMIT, or MOON.
I will give you though that the M in HANGED MAN she makes one slight adjustment to the staff on the left, it's not parallel to the one on the right, it's slight diagonal.
I retrieved this re: vv=w from oxford dictionary, it's the reason why we say phonetically 'double U' when referring to W.
"English uses the Latin alphabet of the Romans. However, this had no letter suitable for representing the speech sound /w/ which was used in Old English, though phonetically the sound represented by /v/ was quite close. In the 7th century scribes wrote uu for /w/; later they used the runic symbol known as wynn. European scribes had continued to write uu, and this usage returned to England with the Norman Conquest in 1066. Early printers sometimes used vv for lack of a w in their type. The name double-u recalls the former identity of u and v, which you can also see in a number of words with a related origin, for example flour/flower, guard/ward, or suede/Swede."
These cases show Pamela's W's are not upside-down M's:
Look closely at the W in the titles WANDS & SWORDS or WORLD, TOWER and WHEEL OF FORTUNE. They are the same W, looks nothing like the M's she uses for EMPRESS, MAGICIAN or HERMIT, or MOON.
I will give you though that the M in HANGED MAN she makes one slight adjustment to the staff on the left, it's not parallel to the one on the right, it's slight diagonal.
I retrieved this re: vv=w from oxford dictionary, it's the reason why we say phonetically 'double U' when referring to W.
"English uses the Latin alphabet of the Romans. However, this had no letter suitable for representing the speech sound /w/ which was used in Old English, though phonetically the sound represented by /v/ was quite close. In the 7th century scribes wrote uu for /w/; later they used the runic symbol known as wynn. European scribes had continued to write uu, and this usage returned to England with the Norman Conquest in 1066. Early printers sometimes used vv for lack of a w in their type. The name double-u recalls the former identity of u and v, which you can also see in a number of words with a related origin, for example flour/flower, guard/ward, or suede/Swede."