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Is WHATWG pronounceable?

• louniks 7y ago
  I instinctively read it as "what-wee-gee"
  • hober 7y ago
    That is how a lot of us say it.
• sjwright 7y ago
  I always thought it to be "what wig".
• daurnimator 7y ago
  "What working group"
• cjslep 7y ago
  "What double you gee"
• cwmma 7y ago
  what-wig
  • pbhjpbhj 7y ago
    I say "wot-wug", but then I've never actually had a spoken conversation about web-standards in over 20yrs of making websites (mostly non-commercially)
    • cwmma 7y ago
      depending on accent, those pronunciations can be pretty close
• panic 7y ago
  > It has various pronunciations: what-wee-gee, what-wig, what-double-you-gee. https://whatwg.org/faq#spell-and-pronounce https://whatwg.org/faq#spell-and-pronounce
• Y_Y 7y ago
  Just think of "What would Jesus do?" and leave off the last two syllables.