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westerners, how do you pronounce the letter "w" do you say dablu or double you or just dub or double v?

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westerners, how do you pronounce the letter "w" do you say dablu or double you or just dub or double v?

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  • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
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    I am fancy, so I say double ewe.

    • cybervseas@lemmy.world
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      🐑🐑

      • shoulderoforion@fedia.io
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        “I love sheep” ~ Richie Cunningham

    • snooggums@lemmy.world
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      Double yew.

      • pumafred09@lemmy.world
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        Reilly: Dary, do you know how many dudes are jerking off to your girlfriend right now? Yew! Jonesy: Wait, I actually know the answer. Yew. Sixteen point one thousand. Yew!

    • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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      ew

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    deleted by creator

  • otp@sh.itjust.works
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    Canadians here.

    It’s “double-you”, but if spoken quickly, it can become “dub-you”

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      Non native speaker, and both of those hold true for me as well. Unless I’m referencing a hostname with www in it; then I just say dub-dub-dub

      • otp@sh.itjust.works
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        I still stick the yous in there, haha

        • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksM
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          I used to, until I realized Moxie Marlinspike doesn’t, so I stopped for easier pronounciation.

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    “Double U”.

    • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
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      Or if I’m saying it fast, as in “www.google.com”, it’s “dub-you”

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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      George Dubya

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    Normal conversational speed: dubya

    Enunciating: double you

    Need to be unambiguous: whiskey

    • MethodicalSpark@lemmy.world
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      More like duba-you instead of dubya in normal conversation.

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      Tell me you are from the south without telling me you are from the south

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    • EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
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      Apparently people who speak English

      The French, Polish, Dutch, etc. are now reclassified as Asians

  • andrewta@lemmy.world
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    Doubleyou

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    Way to complicated, just say “we” with the w from way and the e from hell like we Germans do.

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      Another great example of our German efficiency! Warum zur Hölle soll das ein Doppel-V sein? Habt’s ihr alle Lack gesoffen?

      • jxk@sh.itjust.works
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        Aber “fau” macht Sinn ja?

        • Jumi@lemmy.world
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          Ja, genauso wie Ypsilon

    • tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world
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      “ve”

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    in english: double you in german: ve (german e, idk how to tell it to someone only knowing english)

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      German: sounds like “vay”

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        That’s something I’ve never understood about German or Russian. Both languages have letters that make the English w sound yet they have trouble with it? It’s not like the “th” sound which doesn’t exist in German so it makes no sense to me.

        If you can pronounce the sound why can’t you pronounce it for w’s??

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          The German w sounds like the English v, while the German v sounds like the English (and German) f.

          IPA of the German word “wir”: /viːɐ̯/

          IPA of the English word “with”: /wɪθ/

          I actually had to look it up, but in German the /w/ sound doesn’t really exist? In some dialects the “qu” string is pronounced as /kw/ [according to Wikipedia] but in most it’s pronounced as /kv/ - at least that’s how I’d pronounce it and I’m mostly talking in Standard High German.

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    In Swedish the letter w is called “dubbel v”, apart from when spelling URLs, then we just say something like “ve, ve, ve, punkt, de, änn, punkt, äss, e” if we wanted to say the URL “www.dn.se”.

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      The “äss” phonetic spelling will really help the english speakers reading it not pronounce it as “ass”. Love it.

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        Hehe, I didn’t even consider that (:

        • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
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          In sweden we have lots of äss.

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      I’d probably have transcribed the letter pronunciation as ‘ve, ve, ve, punkt, de, en, punkt, ess e’.

      Just goes to show you that ‘en’ doesn’t even follow the normal pronunciation rules of Swedish, unless we’re talking about the tree, in which case it does.

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        I thought about that but “en” is pronounced differently from “änn”, and we have the word “äss” from a deck of cards.

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          I had to double-check, because I’ve only ever used the spelling “Ess”. Turns out both variants are correct.

    • darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I also refuse this bizarre English / German / Polish idea that W is a separate letter and not just a fun way to write V.

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    “Dubble-you”

    Not saying where I’m from.

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      Isn’t that a maple leaf though?

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    How someone is pronouncing W is actually a good way to guess where the speaker is from, or where the person that taurht them learned english.

    double you for british/american accents

    dubba you for some american accents

    Dablu or dabloo is a clear indication that the speaker is not a naitive western english speaker, usually indicating indian for the speaker.

    double v (often pronounced as double we) usually points towards somewhere near germany/holland/belgium

    I’ve never heard anyone say just dub, curious if anyone has?

    Edit: I lied. W pronounced ‘dub’ is only ever used to indicate a ‘win’. e.g. ‘Took the dub’

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      Just dub-dub-dub for a url

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      Or in school names, like U Dub for University of Washington.

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      double v (often pronounced as double we) usually points towards somewhere near germany/holland/belgium

      As a Dutchie, we pronounce W as “Weigh” or “Way”. No double nonsense.

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    Double you

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    I’m American, fwiw. Formally I say “double you,” informally I say “dub.”

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      🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

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