This is one of my absolute favorite videos on YouTube. Excellent choice.

Internal combustion engine.

Some day I’d love to be the owner of a Curta calculator, but considering the cheapest I’ve ever seen them is $700 I don’t think that’ll ever be a Christmas gift. A tax refund gift to myself perhaps one day, but certainly not a Christmas gift.

"Jack of all trades,

Master of none,

But still better than

A master of one."

I looked into it once before, the short answer is because the letter predates the distinction between “u” and “v”.

Edit: Here’s a comment I made a while ago on the same topic with a little more information: https://lemmy.world/comment/10659648

Do they want used ones?

the new guy went to change his pants from long ones to short ones.

Wait so was he fired for wearing short pants, for leaving with the intention of changing his pants, or because (the reason I initially thought the glass was relevant) the new guy changed his pants within view of the boss’s son through the glass walls?