• cron@feddit.org
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    14 hours ago

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

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      11 hours ago

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

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      13 hours ago

      How else would you say it?

      “Wwwwuuuuhh dot Google dot com”?

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

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        7 hours ago

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

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        11 hours ago

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

      • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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        13 hours 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 😅

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        13 hours ago

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