could cause confusion

[cimorene]

This must be from Finland. I can't even count the amount of times Finns have made this mistake out loud to me:



The local system doesn't differentiate between V and W for purposes of alphabetization so it's easy to see how this potentially could happen, I suppose, although when it eventually comes down to simply remembering which is which - ie, for non-novices - it gets a lot harder to understand. I presume they know that one method is for Russian (and some other languages) and one is for English and simply can't match them up on the spur of the moment.

Comments

[anglepoiselamp]

I've wondered about this myself. The switch happens quite easily in spoken language (by accident) and isn't really explained by Finnish pronounciation since 'v' is never pronounced as 'w' in Finland (rather, 'w' is usually pronounced as 'v').

When it happens in written language as a mispelling, that's genuine fail, though. :D

[lelouchvi]

What's worse is that I scrolled by really fast and read it as "Try a tasty cookie wormed in owen" and totally backed up.

[eyebrowofdoom]

Torchwood shoutout!

Poor irradiated Owen.