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I think this is the same in Germany (www.google.de is pronounced vay-vay-vay google de). I could be wrong though, I'm basing this off a net radio advert I hear
by user24 16y ago
I think this is the same in Germany (www.google.de is pronounced vay-vay-vay google de).
I could be wrong though, I'm basing this off a net radio advert I heard in german once.
- mahrain 16y ago"vau" is V. It's quite distinct from W in German.
- user24 16y agoahhh, so W is pronouced 'vay' and V is 'vau'. I see. I got the german pronunciation confused with the french (which is double-vay), and assumed that Germans were pronouncing 'w' as 'v' in www. But I was wrong. Thanks!
- pmjordan 16y agoAlso note that 'v' in German is hard (like an English 'f'), whereas 'w' is soft (like the English 'v'). There isn't really an equivalent of the English 'w' sound in German. (thus the correct pronunciation of 'Volkswagen' is closer to 'Folksvahgen' when applying the [unreliable] English phonetics) The confusion works both ways, German speakers often pronounce English words with too hard v/w sounds, English speakers pronounce German words too soft v/w sounds. It's phenomenal how deeply ingrained these habits can be.
- StavrosK 16y agoI think the correction below confused things rather than clarify because of its use of German spelling. In German, the letter "v" is called "fau". The letter "w" is called "veh". What you heard, "veh-veh-veh" was, indeed, "www". "VW" (the company) is pronounced "fau-veh". Of course, the German sound for "v" is "f", which is why the correction made things more confusing (in my opinion). The poster assumed that people would pronounce "vau" as "fau", since that's how Germans pronounce it, but English speakers who don't speak (or read) German can't know that it's meant to be pronounced that way.