• @cron@feddit.org
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    91 month ago

    It annoys me how www. is pronounced in english. Really, double-u double-u double-u dot example dot com?

    • Bobby Turkalino
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      41 month ago

      My favorite part of watching WWE is the way their main commentator says “WWE”. You can tell he savors every syllable of it

    • Zombie-Mantis
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      1 month ago

      How else would you say it?

      “Wwwwuuuuhh dot Google dot com”?

      Edit: or I guess, “world wide web” would make more sense?

      • @cron@feddit.org
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        71 month ago

        “web” would have sounded nice and clear, we also didn’t name FTP the World Wide File Transfer Protocol (WWFTP).

      • lurch (he/him)
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        1 month ago

        In other languages, German for instance, it’s pronounced kinda like “weh” or like the letter V in English. It’s easier to say that way. Back in the day I sometimes said “triple double u” to not have to say it the actual, complicated way 😅

      • @Wiz@midwest.social
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        51 month ago

        I’ve heard “dub-dub-dub”. But yeah, saying the abbreviation is longer than the words it’s abbreviating! 😀

      • Dave.
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        51 month ago

        “Wuh-wuh-wuh”, using pronunciation similar to the start of “wow” or “woman”