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From the beginning of times, W had in Swedish been considered as a mere decoration of V. In Swedish typography, blackletter ( fraktur ) used W where antiqua used V. With orthographic standardization and spelling reform, W was abandoned except for some family names and a few loan words such as whisky, whist, wienerbröd and wobbler ( also spelled visky and vobbler ).
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