Vyatka
or VIATKA, a large provsquare miles; pop. about 3,700,000, comprising many Tartar tribes and some 50,000 Mohammedans. The products are corn, rye, barley, oats, flax, and hemp.
Forests of fir, oak, elm and birch are extensive. Before the World War it had manufactures of woolens, linens, potash, leather, copper, firearms, anchors, gun carriages, etc. The capital, of the same name, is a well-built town, containing 17 churches and a cathedral with an altar of solid silver, and is the commercial center of the province.
W from the union of two V's the character alphabet. It takes its form and its name from the union of two V's the character V having formerly the name and force of U. The name "double u" is not, however, a very suitable one, being given to the letter from its form of composition, and not from its sound. In the Anglo- Saxon alphabet W had a distinctive character of its own, the modern letter tive sound properly belonging to it, being represents two sounds: (1) The distinctive sound properly belonging to it, being that which it has at the beginning of a syllable, and when followed by a vowel, as in was, will, woe, forward, housework, etc.; (2) at the end of syllables, in which position it is always preceded by a vowel, it has either no force at all (or at most only serves to lengthen the vowel), as in law, paw, grow, lawful, etc.; or it forms the second element in a vowel), as in law, paw, grow, lawful, diphthong, as in few, new, now, vow, etc., being in in such cases really a vowel, and It is formed by opening the mouth with equivalent to the u in bough, neutral, etc. the organs having exactly the same posi- a close, circular configuration of the lips, It is formed by opening the mouth with the organs having exactly the same position as they have in pronouncing the oo in foot. Wis hence often spoken of as a vowel; but it is not so, as may be seen by comparing woo, wood, and woman, in which w is not equivalent to oo. WAAG (vag), a large river of Hungary, rising in the Carpathian Mountains, and after a course of 200 miles, joining the Danube at Komorn. tains, and after a course of 200 miles, the main waterway of the larger Rhine vessels, which above Arnhem branches off into the province of Gelderland, and