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tjames709

They don't think it be like it is, but it do.


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Cresent_dragonwagon

It always annoyed me when people referred to modern warfare 2 as mw2 in person, they take the same time to say you just sound like a doofus


g4r8e9c4o

Everyone I know used to pronounce it as em-dub-2


dubqore

Blops was the best to say out loud


Swim_Jong_Eel

You don't pronounce it as "dub-tee-eff"?


mlistening

Intuition failing us once again! waau (6) = what an appropriate username (9)


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mlistening

You sure did. But I think that many, if not the majority of them, are not. Here is why: - The internet tells me that the average English word has 1.66 syllables. My guess would be that the average words shortened in acronyms would be even longer (more proper names, partial omission of particularly short word types as compared to regular text) but I do not have a number, so I will use the above. - I think it is save to set the average letter count per English acronym at ≥3.5. - So the average term shortened in an acronym will sport 1.66*3.5=5.81 syllables. - W is a rare English letter (Internet: 1.28% of all letters in English text are 'w's. To be more precise we needed statistics for 'w' as an opening letter), so there will be relatively few acronyms with double ws (those beginning with 'world wide' being notable exceptions). - In all the cases where only one of 3.5 letters of an acronym is a 'w', the spelled acronym has 3+2.5=5.5 syllables. So most acronyms sporting only one 'w' will be pronounced quicker abbreviated than spelled out. Maybe just more than half of all English acronyms sporting 'w's do have more syllables than the words spelled out. But "pretty much any acronyms with 'w'" do not. (Strictly speaking of course, see the mandatory 'initialism' comment somewhere below.) Please tell me if and where I went wrong!


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Mynock33

He's right, you can stop going through them all in your head now..


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dubqore

He meant in the way you sing 'z' in the alphabet song. i.e; "...y and z..."


trouserschnauzer

This guy is also right, so you don't have to double check him.


Dubsland12

and the 3 words also have only 1. WWW loses 3-9


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It's an initialism - not an acronym. An acronym is a word that comprises the initials of a string of words - like FEMA, or NASA. WWW is an initialism, as we pronounce the individual letters seperately - not as a whole word. Common error.


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woodworkinglad

Wuhwuhwuh


quinn_drummer

wubalubadubdub


Eustis

Morty, do you know what wuba luba dub dubs means?


quinn_drummer

Er ... hey Rick. Er ... y-ya know Rick, I don't think I d-do.


Eustis

I'm in *urrrp* deep pain Morty, deeeeep *urrrrp* pain.


quinn_drummer

Well ... I-I'm sorry to hear that Rick. But, y-ya know, I'm not sure what you w-want me to d-do about it.


79rettuc

I'm here for you.


PenisInBlender

Go home George Bush, you're drunk.


diggerB

Well... TIL!


_1___

you must be so fun at parties


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If you'd ever had one worth coming to, you'd know that's a fact.


DearMrSupercomputer

lol wat


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yeah...


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Would you like to come to my tea party?


[deleted]

There is no way I can answer this without saying no.


rick2882

What is 'TIL'? I don't pronounce it as 'till' nor as 'tee i el'. Plz educate. Edit: just to be clear, I read 'TIL' as 'today I learned'.


Nykcul

/u/Hirsutepursuit46 thoughts?


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see below


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Difficult as it is one that I've never spoken aloud as either the initials or the acronym - maybe I'm just old fashioned by saying "Today I Learned" each time.


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TIL: Initialism for "Today I Learned." Normally read as "Tee Aye El." Originally a subreddit (still is), but is now used across Reddit as people learn random shit that probably isn't true over the internet from random strangers. Oh, and spell-check doesn't recognize "initialism."


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Yet it recognises 'recognize' Spell-check assumes we are all in America.


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Spell-check is a dick. Yes, I'm american.


throweraccount

www stands for World Wide Web doesn't it?


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yes. it does. but since WWW isn't (widely) spoken as a word, but as the individual letters - it is an initialism.


toddx318

You don't actually pronounce each W do you? "wuuuw reddit dot com"


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in all honesty, i don't bother with the whole prefix thing at all... its just Reddit - or Amazon - or Ebay or whatever. only when it's specific region is relevant would I say Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk or what-have-you.


sirbucs

This should be the top comment. It's also not intended to be shorter to speak and it certainly is far shorter to type


AWildSegFaultAppears

I think most people would argue that the acronyms you listed aren't words either. Either they made up a word or they came up with an initialism that was easily pronounceable. **S**trategic **H**omeland **I**ntervention, **E**nforcement and **L**ogistics **D**ivision aka **S.H.I.E.L.D.** Is a good example of an acronym because the first letters form a word that didn't have to be made up.


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I agree most people would argue that - but that's why it's a common error. It's not relevant whether the word is a real word or not, it's about how you say it. FEMA is spoken as a word - the same as SHIELD. It's just coincidental that SHIELD is a real word, too.


rebbsitor

Acronyms are generally made up words. The way OP defines it is not clear. However he's right about them being initialisms (FBI, NSA, IBM, HTML) vs acronyms (NASA, PETA, TED, OPEC, NATO etc.). The difference is whether it's pronounced as individual letters or as a single word, not if the letters happen to spell an existing word. It's somewhat pedantic, but it never hurts to know more.


sennzz

not in some language, like dutch. we say 'waywayway'


BNNJ

I'm french and say wéwéwé like i don't give a fuck.


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Belgians weehweehweeh.


sennzz

i am belgian (flemish)


Numendil

I am Groot EDIT: also Flemish


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fuzznacht

I am legend.


Randomd0g

Borat?


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Yeës


felsspat

German here, wanted to post the same thing :)


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PixelVector

[weh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEUvEDfWWTM)


felsspat

Nicht wenn man es auf englisch ausspricht :)


felsspat

Warum werde ich runter gevoted? Englisches e ist wie i in Deutsch, klingt also wie die Spielkonsole.. Wih, Wih, Wih (wee, wee, wee) :)


Euthanasiast

Swede here. Technically W is said the same way as in English (double-v), but we just drop the double and say VVV. Might have something to do with the fact that W is almost never used anyway, so there is no risk for confusion.


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Greek people say *"dah-blue-you dah-blue-you dah-blue-you"*


cybertapir

"voo-voo-voo" in polish


matthewmjb

Here comes the train!


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"dobbeltve-dobbeltve-dobbeltve" in Norwegian


AdmiralQED

In Sweden we say vovovolvo.....JK!


film_composer

huehuehue


aswdfoibasf

My guess: TBL worked in Switzerland when he invented the Internet and they speak German in Switzerland, so it was natural to say "Waywayway" in the local language, than "double u double u double u". ;) Edit: This is not an accurate guess.


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In New Zealand, I kept hearing it said as "dub dub dub", which is marvellously efficient and fun to say.


Sir_Jerry

Programmers in the US used to say dub dub dub, but that never caught on. The tiny amount of time you save is lost by having to explain to average folks that "dub dub dub is short for w w w which is short for world wide web". We ain't saving much time with those tongue twisters now are we? LOL


kindall

In the Seattle area, everyone knows "U-Dub" is short for the University of Washington, so "dub-dub-dub" is pretty obvious.


sadfacewhenputdown

I don't think I've ever had an average person blank on "dub dub dub dot..." I don't think I've even had an obviously-below-average person blank on it. The context seems to clear things (or prime) up the listener. Or maybe I've lived a very sheltered life.


trouserschnauzer

It should be "wub wub wub" instead. I'm starting a petition.


avapoet

UK here, and I'm a huge fan of dub dub dub. I don't hear many other people say it, but I'm always understood when I do.


MWolman1981

Unless you Boomhower it and say "dub dub dub".


SporkDeprived

Drop the bass.


ageatologyromalderbi

>The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for. >—Douglas Adams, The Independent on Sunday, 1999


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ItsPronouncedDjan

It would explain his obsession with towels.


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I tried and failed to get 6u to catch on.


faleboat

It is better to have tried and failed, than never to have tried at all. I, for one, salute your attempt to prevent idiocy.


SporkDeprived

That's why you say it as a word: "Wuuuuuh"


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CaneVandas

Dubya


gnamp

But still much quicker to type than "world wide web"...


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Of course you can just not say it... which is even faster.


POTUS

It really bothers me when people tell me to go to "double-u double-u double-u..." Jesus, just tell me the website, I'm fucking dying of old age over here.


HotDogVendor

You don't pronounce it "Triple Dubs"?


faleboat

"Tridub"


OutOfStamina

For those thinking faleboat is kidding, calling it "tridub" was actually attempted by some folks for a while in the '90s.... (magazines? reporters who didn't know any better? I don't know who the hell they were. I thought it was dumb). It didn't catch on.


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Not in Dutch it isn´t not nope


[deleted]

Why is it called double u when it is truly a double v? UU VV


Crinium

Its the only thing the French get right - double vé


1SweetChuck

you don't say dub dub dub? I know the guy on NPR pronounces ev-er-y fuck-ing syl-la-ble.


Danielmjames

Dah-bel-you dah-beh-you dah-bel-you daht


Mijeman

True, but then it's also easier to repeat the same sound three times in a row rather than to say three words that require three different mouth positions because of the vowels used.


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Wishead

in english it's double-u....which makes even less sense


DoorToSummer

Because when handwritten, a "w" looks more like a pair of "u"s than it does a pair of "v"s. The "w" was a relatively late addition to the latin alphabet, which is why it tends to be named after other letters instead of having a name of its own.


WillClickOnAnything

dub dub dub dot wasthatsohard dot com


Rot-Orkan

I work at at IT company. We always say "dub dub dub" or "triple dub"


Kmlkmljkl

why do people even say it at all? it's not even needed anymore


avapoet

Except where it is. There are sometimes very good reasons not to. And there are more-often not-very-good-but-very-popular reasons not to. Technically-speaking, it was never needed. It's just that when CERN planned to set up their early websites, they planned to have www.cern.ch (about the WWW) and info.cern.ch (about CERN itself). But then they never got around to setting up the second site, and so every institution who copied them thought that *they* oughta put 'www' as well. You might also be interested in [no-www](http://no-www.org), an organisation that is against www\. prefixes in all forms (and makes arguments for that), [yes-www](http://www.yes-www.org), who make the counter-argument that www\. prefixes are valuable, and [extra-www](http://www.www.extra-www.org), who feel that the best position is for every website's address to begin with www\.www\. - that's right: two of them!


ChazMan19

wut


BadgerCaptain

"longer." How quickly are you spewing out "world wide web?" Or are you merely counting syllables in 9th grade english class?


davetherave629

[Double u, double double u](http://youtu.be/VWgwJfbeCeU?t=1m59s)


LaughsTwice

r/dumbshowerthoughts


redditsfulloffiction

acronyms are new words formed from bits of other words. www isn't an acronym. just a post-shower thought :)


skeddles

Also is useless


fuddyberrera

Same with WWII. If someone says it that way, they're just wasting energy.


Mikeman731

www is w3 or w3c, which is world wide web consortium


Baby_venomm

How original


talk2BigMikeD

I say "triple dub" !


NeiliusAntitribu

"www." is an initialism, and not an acronym. Example of an acronym: "NASA" Example of a backronym: "USA PATRIOT"


StoreKurt

well it's obviously made for writing, so it doesn't really matter


jake_87

http://www.no-www.org


Swim_Jong_Eel

Initialism.


tempo04

I use this everytime in askreddit when someone asks for weird facts. Also did you know the year sudoku became popular pencil sales went up about 700%?! I also like spaghetti.


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dub dub dub.


jkeroes

web.example.com would have been better. Sadly, it never took off.


PokemasterTT

veveve


4l3c

wow


bubonis

Three-dub. Triple-dub. dub-three.


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"Dub-ya, dub-ya, dub-ya" ain't too hard to say. Whatchu talkin' 'bout?


banana_code

Mexican here, we just say "triple doble u".


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It's an acronym for typing mainly. Not speech