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Even faster to say Net
That’s why it’s pronounced dub-dub-dub.
Dub Dub Dub.
But also, “the web.” “Online.”
when visiting my dutch family I noticed how faster “vay vay vay” is, so I started thinking vévévé in french instead of “double v” x3 (btw this is a double u : uu) I’ve said it out loud a few times by accident and people don’t question it. I think we all agree it’s a bit silly to pronounce.
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I have an intense and fascinating life.
we pronounce it va ya yay
Say “dubdubdub” or “dubbadubdub”. “winwinwin” would also be acceptable.
In Irish we say “wuh”. And “punk” for dot.
Wuh wuh wuh punk lemmy punk world
I like the Spanish radio commercials like you’ll hear in California:
[…] PUNTO COM!!!
(website dot com and in a booming voice)
in Germany we say weh and punkt
veh written with english pronunciation in mind
Sounds like dubstep!
Irish Dubstep
Dublin-step
Back in the day at work we used ‘dub-dub-dub’ for www. (around 2000)
To play devil’s advocate, yes, “w” is technically three syllables in English, but they’re easy enough to blur together. Meanwhile, the actual “w” sound is comparatively labor intensive, and “-orld” even more so. We’re in purple burglar alarm world.
Tridub
Not in Sweden. Veveve.
I love it and will marry it.
well i sure hate that last picture
true story. Just as many syllables as 1 W.
Sure, but you sound like an absolute psycho saying “world wide web.MidgetPorn.edu”
I’d like to know what scholarships are available for that.
3 W
Just pronounce it “wuhwuhwuh”
Dubdubdub
In Dutch www is faster. Never understood why one would give a letter a name that consists of 2 parts.
how do you pronounce Y ?
Üpsilon
Usually same as our compound letter “ij”, similar but not quite how you’d prononuce the word “eye”. Less commonly it’s pronounced as “i-grec” (greek i) or “ypsilon”.
i-grec (but English sound for “e” just like in Dutch) is the French way as well.
Sound like igrek.
it’s two words (“i graeca”)
We say it just like I wrote it, as one word. Although some people use Griekse IJ, which is also two words.
and how would you say xyz ?
In Flanders (at least where I’m at) we usually say I grec, but when doing math or reciting the alphabet, we say IJ.
In Swedish I pronounce y as y. It has its own sound and doesn’t sound like another letter, so it can’t be written as a combination of other letters.
I don’t get why w is called double u when it’s clearly a double v
In some languages (Spanish, for example) it’s double v.
U and V used to be the same letter
It’s a long story. In short: In Latin script u and v were the same letter “u” but had two pronunciations depending on whether it was being used as a vowel or consonant. But when adapting the alphabet to Germanic languages (including Old English) the same two sounds were from two different letters, so they put two "u"s together to make double u: vv.
The full story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2j7mZ9-2Y
