• cron@feddit.org
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    7 days ago

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

    • Zombie-Mantis@lemmy.world
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      7 days 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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        “web” would have sounded nice and clear, we also didn’t name FTP the World Wide File Transfer Protocol (WWFTP).

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