Other Games Why is the Heavy item in TF2 called Sanvich and not Sandwich?

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  1. Spikegold

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    Simple question of which I know the answer to, but want to know if you guys do ;)
     
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    I always assumed that it's because his accent couldn't pronounce sandwich right ;-;
     
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    What Map said, but I think it sounds pretty unique-like for some reason o-o
     
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    because Heavy has a strong Soviet - Russian accent, so he called the sandwich a sandvich.
     
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    Ill give the answer away in 5 hours :P None of you are right, but extremely close.
     
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    It's probably going to be something like:
    Heavy mistook the w for a v :P
     
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    As promised, the answer:

    Heavy's 1st language is Russian, and there is no W in Russian, so he uses the closest to a W, which is V.


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