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A possible pronunciation of WWW

Post 1

Jim Lynn

Douglas Adams recently suggested 'twirdle-ewe' as a possible pronunciation of WWW. Maybe we can start a trend.


A possible pronunciation of WWW

Post 2

benjymous

shouldn't it be sextuple-u


A possible pronunciation of WWW

Post 3

bubster

What about "all the ewes dot..."?


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Post 4

benjymous

all the uwes implies as many as you can possibly type, which is a bit silly

I was wondering whether any webmaster has ever called a webserver uuuuuu


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Post 5

Garion

smiley - fish Why not say:
"Internet Hach Two Gee Two Com"
That's fun, and easy to wear smiley - smiley


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Post 6

Cheerful Dragon

Apparently, WWW is often pronounced 'dub dub dub' because people can't be bothered to say 'double-u double-u double-u'.


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Post 7

Jonny Zoom

Yep I confirm my ex-Silicon Valley colleague pronounces it "dub dub dub".


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Post 8

benjymous

careful though - you might get confused for a boy scout


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Post 9

bubster

Especially in New Zealand.


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Post 10

TechnicolorYawn (Patron Saint of the Morally Moribund)

Apparently http:// is pronounced 'Happy-tap'
So the full version is (deep breath)

Happy-tab-Twirdle-U-Aych-too-gee-too-dot-com

;->


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Post 11

benjymous

we really aught to start a campaign to e-mail all tv and radio presenters complaining that they are pronouncing web addresses incorrectly, and give them a nonsense version - it'd be fun to see how many we could get to say "happy-tap twirdle... etc" on air!!


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Post 12

Da Fox

I reckon a decent alternative making for rapid speech is "wibble-u" - except if you're under the influence, when it can go a bit wrong....


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Post 13

Evil Bobchan

woo-woo-woo.

That's what I think anyway...


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Post 14

benjymous

you should make a "train driver pulling the chain" motion with your right hand at the same time


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Post 15

Evil Bobchan

So that's settled. The official start to any web address is:

happy-tap-woo-woo-woo

smiley - smiley


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Post 16

benjymous

I'm looking forward to someone asking for a web address now, so I can try that smiley - smiley


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Post 17

netbiker

I'm lazy, I never pronounce the "http://" or "www" part. Why bother? It's like ".com". I'd just say the address is Haitch-Two-Gee-Two. It only really makes sense to spell it out when the site in question is NOT "http://www.something-or-other.com", as in "why-hyphen-A-dot-cee-haitch" ("http://www.y-a.ch", my home page). And saying "haitch-tee-tee-pee-colon-slash-slash" is like giving someone your phone number, explicitly telling them they need to lift the receiver before they call you... God, I've already said more about it than it was worth. Might as well have spent the day going "double-you double-you double-you"...


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Post 18

benjymous

yes, but when phones were first widely available you'd have probably have to have told someone who'd bought a phone just to be able to talk to you how to use it. I guess in a few years everyone will assume the http:// bit anyway, and most modern browsers automatically fill this in if you don't type it.


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Post 19

Lonnytunes - Winter Is Here

How about upside down MMM as in inverted mmm//justathought.com though it might scare the sheep in New Zealand. They are still recovering from all the fat, loud American tourists wearing the wardrobes from hell who visited in summer.


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Post 20

spiny norman--the lesser

As a slim American tourist I resent that remark, plus being from Montana sheep like me.
On the topic, I live in Texas now and here it's common to just say the "daht calm" part and dispense with multisysllabic words.


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