Plural Letters

In English you can dot the i’s and cross the t’s. In English, when you want to say the name of a letter in the plural, you add an apostrophe and an s. The pronunciation of this is intuitive enough, something like /kross ðə ti:z/.

In Catalan it is done differently: The letter is written twice! I’ve seen this in two places: Badia’s Gramàtica and the Catalan Wikipedia. Badia says, p. 782:

Pel que fa a les ee i a les oo…

An Wikipedia says:

Al català existeix la possiblitat d’accentuar obert o tancat moltes ee

And i’ve got to admit that i don’t know how it is pronounced.