W shortened pronunciations, as many speakers find the phrase "double-u double-u double-u" inconveniently long. In other Germanic languages, including German (but not Dutch, in which it is pronounced wé), its name is similar to that of English V . In many languages, its name literally means "double v": Portuguese "duplo vê", Spanish "doble ve" (though it can be spelled "uve doble"), French "double vé", Icelandic "tvöfalt vaff", Czech "dvojité vé", Finnish "kaksois-vee", etc. Former U.S. president George W. Bush was given the nickname "Dubya" after the colloquial pronunciation of his middle initial in Texas, where he spent much of his childhood.
Kim (given name) – where the child was born. From the 1900s to the 1960s, the name Kim was mainly given to boys, despite the use of this name for both male and female characters in popular literature and, later, movies of the time. In Scandinavia Kim can more often be used as a male name in its own right, being a common short form of Joakim. In Russia (Kim) is a diminutive/nickname of Ioakim (), "Joachim". Its popularity in the early Soviet era was explained as it being also the acronym for (Kommunistichesky Internatsional Molodyozhi, Young Communist International). Kim (given name) Kim