 Good morning, John. We got a question in the Dear Hank and John inbox. Oh, who's a frog? It's from Debbie, and it is a question that I've been asking myself for decades now. We can spell letters with letters, which is just, I don't know what that means, but it just makes my brain go pfft, and how they are spelled is of course impacted by how they are pronounced. And there are ways that we have decided to pronounce them, and I'm gonna rank them now. So first of all, coming in at number one, we have all of the vowels. They get to do whatever they want. Coming in at number two, we have consonants that end in the E noise. So C, T, V, B, you're all fantastic. This makes perfect sense. Why don't we just carry it through the whole alphabet? A, you can do whatever you want. B, C, D, E, Fee. Fee. Why not? Why? Why? But okay, if we're gonna have another system, which it turns out we actually have to, because I'll get to that in a second. Coming in at number three, we have the F, the M, the N, the S. Where instead of coming at the beginning of the word, we decide we're gonna put the consonant at the end of the word. And I was thinking about this, and I was like, why can't we just switch all of these over to like the B, C, D version? And then I got to S, which if you do that with S, you get C. Come on! But there's another letter for which this is true, and that is number four, along with K, we have J. J and K, they do their own thing. And K could be key, and that would be great, but J can't be G, because we got a G. And then we got this little island of misfit toys, letters that are not pronounced like any of the other letters. So coming in at number five, we're going with Q. I feel like Q makes sense for it to be weird. Like, I don't know that we need Q, like we could just use other letters to do that, like Queen, K-W-E-E-N. Then we have X, also is standing out right here on its own because it shouldn't exist. It's just K-S. Or Z, for some reason. And now we have approached our final three. The worst, clearly the worst letter names. Y, which could have been Y, and we just missed that. Unacceptable, but not as bad as second to last. H? H? H doesn't even have the H noise in it. Unless you're British and you say H, which great, good, obviously that's what we should do, but that's not what we do. But, but, but H at least contains the letter H, right? It's there at the end. But coming in absolute dead last, just despicable. We have the only three syllable letter, the only letter that references another letter, the only letter that does not even contain itself. W? It just describes its own shape, but poorly. Look, there's a reason why we ended up with W and I'd spoiler, it's not a great reason. It is, depending on how you count it, the youngest letter. And it arrived in its final form after the invention of the printing press. And so it was named by printers who before we had W's would just use two U's instead of a W to make the one noise. Like we still have a word that does this, equus. But why is a W a double V, Hank? Well, because V's and U's were for a while kind of interchangeable. I have a pet theory and there is nothing supporting this that printers just had more V's lying around because U's were more useful. So using two U's all the time would use up all of their U's. And did I make the whole video so that I could say that line a little, a little bit? Yeah. John, it's the last day of the year when you can join the Awesome Socks Club at awesomesocks.club.com slash vlogbrothers. Or because V's and U's are interchangeable, awesomesocks.com slash vlogbrothers. Be delighted with a new pair of socks designed by a different artist every month of 2021, except if you sign up now, it will not be every month. It will be two pairs in February because we ran out of socks and so there will be delivered two pairs on February and then one every month after that. And know that all the profits will be going to decrease maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. You can sign up now or tell someone you love to maybe sign you up now at awesomesocks.club slash vlogbrothers. John, at the end of your last video you asked what's next and I love it and all I gotta say is whatever it is ain't gonna be a little. I'll see you on Tuesday.