On November 6, 2011, in The Name, by Milton Carnes The English alphabet contains these three letters U, V, & W. The SOUNDS of V & W are rather NEW. However, the letters U, V, & W are closely related to each other. They are derived from the SAME SOURCE, coming to the modern world directly from the sixth letter of the ancient Hebrew alef-beth (alpha-bet); a letter commonly expressed today as WAW/UAU/VAV. The letters U & W are new developments, and are mutations of what began as a Hebrew letter, then transliterated into Greek, and finally Latin. The original Hebrew shape was Y; the Greek shape was also Y, and called UPSILON; the Latin dropped the stem, and it became the letter V. The sound of the Hebrew letter (UAU) is that of the English letter “U” with a double “O” (oo) as in “school”. The Hebrew letter Uau became the Greek letter Upsilon, and sounded like the “U” in HALLELU YAH. Within the last 700 years, this letter shaped “V” with the sound of “OO” developed into our modern letters U and W. Please verify this by using online encyclopedias and other sources. The Tetragrammaton is therefore more accurately rendered as YHUH, standing for the 4 letters YOD-HAY-UAU-HAY. If preferred, it can be expressed YHVH, as long as it is understood that the “V” shape is sounded as our modern “U”. The rounded form U began to gain in popularity in the late 1300’s, using the rounded shape within words, but using the V-shape at the beginning of words. The “V” shape originally had the sound of our modern letter U, but the labial sound of “V” (lower lip with upper teeth) is a rather new development; “via” was pronounced “uia”. Many sources still erroneously imagine the letter “double-U” (W) as they cite the sixth letter of the Hebrew alef-beth as “WAW”, when it should be more properly understood as the Hebrew letter “UAU”. The shape and sound of our modern “W” is not the same as the Hebrew letter, although the Hebrew is the origin of the letter UPSILON – Y – deriving from the palaeo-Hebrew letter having the same shape and sound. The Hebrew letter UAU (Y) is the source of our modern sound “U”. The letter “W” did not exist until it first appeared in certain words as a UU (double – U) during the 14th century. “Witch” was originally spelled “vvitch”. V and W developed into their modern sounds within the last 700 years from the Hebrew UAU and Greek UPSILON, both shaped Y. The main confusion over these letters is caused by their modern shapes. What we read today as a “V” used to sound like our modern “U”. Letters are the building-blocks of language. They are like the individual notes of music, which when properly arranged will form a familiar melody. When properly arranged into words properly sounded, letters are the foundation of our thoughts, and give meaning to our speaking and writing. Many people are becoming aware that translators of The Scriptures have used modern, recently-invented letters to convey the sounds of words or names from older languages, and allowed the distortions of The Greek to influence spellings. Because Greek has no “SH” sound, the Hebrew word SHEMITE became SEMITE (pertaining to the descendants of Shem). Another example is the letter “J”, having appeared around 1530 CE, developing from the Greek letter, “IOTA”. The use of the Greek IOTA was a desperate attempt to convey the sound of the Hebrew letter YOD. Reality must remain in contact with what we accept to be Truth, otherwise our Truth is not a reflection of reality. What are we to think of the modern letter we call “double-U”? The letter double-U (or just “dub”) doesn’t have a great deal of history to it. There are some who have strained to imagine this letter to have begun during the 7th century CE, when it first appeared by writers of Old English as a pairing of the letter U, (uu). The word “witch” was originally spelled vvitch (vv). The use of the double-u certainly didn’t begin to become popularized until the 13th century in any other languages. Slowly, a diphthong (dipping of the tongue) evolved in words using the combination eu (or ew), so other languages began to adopt it by writing it as vv (two v shapes). Still, the shape of “V” was pronounced as a “U” in English, but Germanic influences began to exert pressures, so this spawned the modern letter “V” that we all know and love. WAS THERE A LETTER “W” IN HEBREW? The sixth letter of the Hebrew alef-beth is best rendered as a long “o” or long “u” sound. It can be heard in the phrase, “halleluYah” (spelled hay-lamed-lamed-uau-yod-hay). If we are to be consistent, we should render the name of the Hebrew letter UAU instead of WAW. If you perform a personal research on a number of Hebrew words which use this letter (uau), you will come to a fuller understanding of how it is to sound. To use a modern letter to transliterate ancient Hebrew is corrupting, and misleading. This information is not intended to judge or bash anyone’s personal beliefs, and hopefully any reader who may be disturbed by it will be challenged to do further research on the subject. The distortions of this (UAU) Hebrew letter over the centuries has caused most of the world to lose an accurate understanding of how to pronounce the Name of the Creator, and the Mashiach (Messiah) of Israel. This excerpt is courtesy of Lew White Fossillized Customs Kingdom-Info is not associated with nor do we support the teachings of Lew White & Fossillized Customs The purpose of this article is to illustrate a teaching on “The Name”. The best way to examine whether or not the Tetragrammaton is YHWH, YHVH, or YHUH is to examine The Name from other languages that existed during the time of The Messiah. Let’s look at the name of Judah or Yahudah in Greek. 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