God, they maintained, had given Holland into the hands of the English; it was to be the landing-place of the saints, whence they should proceed to pluck the w of Babylon from her chair and to establish the kingdom of Christ on the continent; and they threatened with every kind of temporal and everlasting woe the man who should advise peace on any other terms than the incorporation of the United Provinces with the commonwealth of England.

Who that knows what it is, to name a letter, can think of naming w by double o?

She is at rivalry with Lady W for a certain Mr., whom perhaps you knew at Oxford....

Do you see the inscription upon itE W in coarsely-carved letters, and the figures 1658 over them?

"Though the converting the w into a v is not so common as the changing the v into a w."Ib., p. 46.

W before h, is usually pronounced as if it followed the h; as in what, when, where, while: but, in who, whose, whom, whole, whoop, and words formed from these, it is silent.

In the Key Lamb identifies W with Favell, who "left Cambridge because he was asham'd of his father, who was a house-painter there."