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A better way to say "www"? 23 Jul 2008
Here in good old blighty we say "double-u-double-u-double-u"; while over in the US of States it's (the marginally faster) "dubya-dubya-dubya" - neither of which trip poetically off the tongue.
Interestingly, "www" is the longest possible three-letter string to pronounce in English. A fact that caused Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams to describe the World Wide Web as "the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for."
...So if you have any suggestions for solving this problem, let's hear 'em...
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10 comments so far
Adam 23 Jul 2008 09:46 AM
I spent a few months working with a bloke from NZ. He used to say "dub dub dub", it stuck with me and its all I say now.
Ed 23 Jul 2008 10:19 AM
This is a simple one. Stop using www. on domain names.
http://no-www.org/
I'm serious, there is really no reason to use it.
Zidge 23 Jul 2008 11:32 AM
@Ed: See http://www.yes-www.org/ lol
Ben 23 Jul 2008 01:07 PM
An old prof of mine always just said world-wide-web. Sounds a bit odd, but makes sense and it's pretty short.
JJ 23 Jul 2008 05:18 PM
How about "tri-dub"?
Ed 23 Jul 2008 05:34 PM
Ok fine, if we're going to force the use of it...
whiskey whiskey whiskey dot echo tango romeo echo dot charlie oscar mike.
:)
Mike 23 Jul 2008 06:52 PM
Gotta be "three dubs"!
galavanr 24 Jul 2008 08:25 AM
web.something.com
Jez 24 Jul 2008 08:43 AM
I wish we could get rid of the "http://" bit too
Tamlyn 5 Aug 2008 01:17 PM
And while we're at it let's get rid of top level domain names too (.com, .org, .co.uk etc.) they just confuse people.