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I dislike www since it is the world's worst acronym, having three times as many syllables as the words it replaces.
by excitom 12y ago
I dislike www since it is the world's worst acronym, having three times as many syllables as the words it replaces.
- pling 12y agoThat's why, at least in the UK, we use "dub dub dub".
- grkvlt 12y agoDo we? The most common time-saving pronunciation I have heard simply uses the initial 'w' sounds from the three words, and therefore has three syllables.
- pling 12y agoI've heard that but primarily with inexperienced users.
- grkvlt 12y agoI just looked at the Wikipedia page for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_%22www%22 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_%22www%22 and have never seen so much unsourced drivel in my life. For the record, I have been pronouncing it the way I described in the GP comment for the last twenty plus years, so that's some sort of data point.
- pling 12y agoWell its Wikipedia. What do you expect. And as for me, it's purely an anecdote. I think it depends on where you are and who you know. Citation needed.
- jamespharaoh 12y agoerr, no we don't, sorry!
- ademarre 12y agoAround my workplace we say "dub dub dub", or I do, at least. I think originally I picked it up from a Matt Cutts video on the Google Webmaster Central YouTube channel.
- vacri 12y agoI go for "wuh wuh wuh" myself. "dub dub dub" reminds me of scouts, even though I never was one...
- deathanatos 12y agoFrom the US, and I also use "dub dub dub" (picked it up from my networking professor…), I've also used "hup-ta" to refer to "http://" http://". ("hup-tis" is https:// https://) It sounds ridiculous, but it flows a lot better than "ache tee tee pee colon slash slash". (my co-workers understand this, and I think it's growing on a few. One still resists.)
- notduncansmith 12y agoWe use "dub dub dub" at work, though typically not when speaking the full name of the url. That may sound weird, so here's an example exchange: "Go to foobar.com" "It's not working" "Try with dub dub dub" As an aside, it's so painful to listen to radio commercials from advertising agencies that thought it was a good idea to include "www" in the script. "Just go to double-yew double-yew double-yew..."
- janaagaard 12y agoIn Denmark we usually say V-V-V when we spell it out. Confusing? Defenitely yes. But we also call a BMW a BMV and a WC is just a VC.
- eknkc 12y agoSame here in Turkey. Most people just say vvv. We don't have a "w" in our alphabet, and a name for it though.. That might be the reason.
- batuhanicoz 12y agoMost people I know in Turkey says double-v, including my father who can't even Google properly. We do say BMV though. And I've heard may people saying "v", but most? I'm now sure. I could be living in a bubble.
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- Zancarius 12y agoSuddenly, I imagine "venture capital" takes on a humorous glint in Denmark.
- josteink 12y agoThat's not really a problem, since in Denmark people speak Danish and "venture capital" is not a Danish word, so people aren't saying it, nor writing abbreviations of it intermixed with other Danish language.
- hmsimha 12y agoWhen saying your domain name aloud, you never have to say www if your naked domain automatically redirects to your www. subdomain. Most of the time when people say it, it's completely unnecessary. I suppose you could use another subdomain to fulfill the same purpose of 'www' but 'www' is such a common convention that you would then probably need to redirect your users from www to whatever other subdomain you use.
- zephjc 12y agoI've liked to saw 'wa' (pronounced like わ/ワ) since the '90s but I've never used it in serious conversation.
- Aardwolf 12y agoIt's not a U, it's not even a vowel, and if it's anything double, it's a double V. Half of it certainly does not look like a U.
- vacri 12y agoHalf of it certainly does not look like a U That depends on your handwriting and/or typeface.
- tdammers 12y agoLess talk, more type.