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August 23, 2025

Indian signs deploy cool tricks to make sounds jump across scripts. An L dangles, an S curves. But the symphony works

- Tanya George

Wcird things happen when you make words work across scripts. The letter W gets its name from the French double vé (pronounced doo-bluh-vay), which translates to “double v", which is exactly what it looks like.

Now try and match that sound in Marathi. It requires some more letterforms and some matras that don’t connect well if you don't have a good font.

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