What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

greysheep

The letter W is a 'double U'

joewicklow

My sister thought for years that your mans name was Jimill Fixit and the show was named after him.

AllForIt

greysheep wrote: »

The letter W is a 'double U'

Double V no?

VV

FunLover18

AllForIt wrote: »

greysheep wrote: »

The letter W is a 'double U'

Double V no?

VV

That's how it's written but you say 'double-you', in the same way you say 'bee', 'em', 'zed/zee'

AllForIt

FunLover18 wrote: »

That's how it's written but you say 'double-you', in the same way you say 'bee', 'em', 'zed/zee'

Oh yeah never though of it like that ! Add that to things I've just realized ! : )

ohnonotgmail

AllForIt wrote: »

Double V no?

VV

it is double V in german.

IvyTheTerrible

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

it is double V in german.

And French.

bnt

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

And French.

And remember that written Latin used V where we use U: PUBLIVS JULIVS GRACCHVS and so on.

pickarooney

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

it is double V in german.

Lies.

V is 'fow', W is 'vay'

ohnonotgmail

pickarooney wrote: »

Lies.

V is 'fow', W is 'vay'

something must have changed in the 35 years since i learned that.

iamwhoiam

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

something must have changed in the 35 years since i learned that.

No . Its been V - fow
And W - vay
for a long long time ! Any German I know who are much older than 35 pronounce it fow and vay

Capt'n Midnight

greysheep wrote: »

The letter W is a 'double U'

It takes longer to say "www" than "world wide web"

Ash.J.Williams

New Home wrote: »

I find it weird (and a real waste) that they accept certain plastic items but not others, even though they may have the same number and therefore be made by the same material!

Apparently its china's fault. They are the dustbin of the world ie we send them our rubbish and occasionally they get all uppity and reduce their contamination ratio. This week they dropped it a whole percent, the scallywags.

Markcheese

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

It takes longer to say "www" than "world wide web"

Dunno if they still do, but the kiwis used to say dub-dub-dub makes sense but sounds daft...

the beer revolu

Markcheese wrote: »

Dunno if they still do, but the kiwis used to say dub-dub-dub makes sense but sounds daft...

French say "wey wey wey"

LirW

English isn't my first language and I only realised a few days ago that Lemonade is called Lemonade because it's made from Lemon....

the beer revolu

I always knew peanuts were technically a legume but it was only recently pointed out that the the name is pea nut!

Capt'n Midnight

the beer revolu wrote: »

French say "wey wey wey"

Italians go "vu vu vu"

Irish Guitarist

I watched Breaking Bad and never realised the name Saul Goodman is a joke until I started watching Better Call Saul.

New Home

I only realised this around Christmas when I rewatched it - Hogwarts as a word was "first" used in Labyrinth, where Jennifer Connelly mistakes the name Hoggle for Hogwart when she meets the creature at first.

764dak

The built-in calculator on my phone has trig but no inverse trig functions.

FunLover18

New Home wrote: »

I only realised this around Christmas when I rewatched it - Hogwarts as a word was "first" used in Labyrinth, where Jennifer Connelly mistakes the name Hoggle for Hogwart when she meets the creature at first.

I vaguely remember JK crediting the name to a plant.

IvyTheTerrible

FunLover18 wrote: »

I vaguely remember JK crediting the name to a plant.

Not deliberately though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croton_capitatus

_Roz_

I only realized recently that the Count in Sesame Street was so-named not just because he's a vampire, but because he counts.

Yep, I'm dumb.

sbsquarepants

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I watched Breaking Bad and never realised the name Saul Goodman is a joke until I started watching Better Call Saul.

A few years back a friend of mine got a solicitors letter from the office of Hugh. J. Ward.
He thought it was a wind up...but no Hugh. J. Ward is an actual solicitors!!

js35

_Roz_ wrote: »

I only realized recently that the Count in Sesame Street was so-named not just because he's a vampire, but because he counts.

Yep, I'm dumb.

That ba$tard used to scare the bejasus out of me when I was little

DarkHoarse

The Fedex logo has an arrow in it

Ciaran_B

In the episode of The Simpsons when Mr. Burns puts on a fake 'tache and tells people his name is Snrub, he is spelling Burns backwards.

Ash.J.Williams

Self Contained Underwater Breathing Aparatus

Katgurl

I don't think most of the things listed above were obvious. Perhaps I am stupider than most though.

Anyway here is mine -

I was shocked at how many fb friends this year suffering from the very rare virus influenza. Then I realised they have a flu.