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pronunciation - Spelling a word with two Us in a row out loud . . . Note also that the double u in "vacuum" has a somewhat similar but not identical sound to the double-u in "cwm" (a loan-word from Welsh), so there may be some (albeit very small) risk of spelling it "vacwm"
Why is the letter W called double U rather than double V? At first a "double-u" sound was indicated by "uu" Norman scribes introduced something like w, but it could be written as UU or VV It was only with the introduction of printing that the vv form came to be common So originally W really was UU, but it was also VV because U and V were the same letter back then