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Just give it a more efficient name. In German it's referred to as [veː].

We do this in Sweden too. WWW is pronounced VVV and the car manufacturer is pronounced BMV.

That's more or less already the pronounciaton for V in English.

German efficiency at work

German has its own three-syllable letter: Y. It's pronounced similar to "ipsilon."

German. Efficiency.

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