[thechat] Pronounce URL
Kevin Stevens
kjs at ratking.co.uk
Wed Oct 8 13:13:48 CDT 2003
> >> term World Wide Web because the acronym was 9 syllables long
> >
> >
> > World Wide Web - I count three syllables, four if you mangle wor-eld...
>
> But the acronym (WWW) is 6 syllables by my count. Dubba-you Dubba-you
> Dubba-you. Which is interesting if only because the acronym has more
> syllables than the phrase it stands for.
I think this might be an English thing, "W" would be pronounced
Duh-Bull-You.
Kevin Stevens
kjs at ratking.co.uk
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