Let's make a movement to call W "wub". It uses its own sound, it is one syllable, and it sounds like "dub" (as in "double U"). As a bonus side effect, "www" will sound like dubstep.
I think this fits better than 'dub dub dub' for web addresses
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#22It has always annoyed me that "world wide web" is significantly faster to say than "www".
Yes but is great fun seeing people say out web address's. Ah the early days when they spelt out the http:// part as well. If it was realy a bother though somebody would of pulled a Prince and called it squiggle. ALl this though is based upon English use of the letter W, sure other languages have there own quirks and idiosims.
* Would have pulled a Prince
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#24Just give it a more efficient name. In German it's referred to as [veː].
We do this in Sweden too. WWW is pronounced VVV and the car manufacturer is pronounced BMV.
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#25Wait a minute, there are significant backward-compatibility concerns to be addressed before we shorten the pronunciation of "W". How will we fill the extra two syllables in the ABC song?
Maybe we can enunciate L-M-N-O-P instead of running them all together?
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#26thats why i just say dub dub dub for www. There couldnt be a worse standard subdomain. Also great article.. if you are interested in measuring words and speech, we should talk ;)
Save a syllable: trip-dub.
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#27thats why i just say dub dub dub for www. There couldnt be a worse standard subdomain. Also great article.. if you are interested in measuring words and speech, we should talk ;)
Save a syllable: trip-dub.
Which sounds like it could be a rather appealing genre of music.
Wub-wub-Wub-wub in the sky with diamonds.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
And, of course, w's name does contain one of the vowel sounds that w forms (the long u), just like y's does (the long i). Neither of those letters name contains their own consonant sound.
Wait, when does 'w' make the sound [u] (as opposed to [w] or [ʊ])?
cwm?
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#29This makes me wonder how confusing it must be for Bassant's Removals & Storage to explain their website URL over the phone...[1]
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#30What's more is that 'W' (and 'M') mess up every compact monospaced font.