[thechat] Pronounce URL
Judah McAuley
judah at wiredotter.com
Tue Oct 7 20:58:46 CDT 2003
Chris Evans wrote:
> Kevin Stevens wrote:
>
>> 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.
Judah
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