Re: how to pronouce www. (Again!) was: Lisp, the secret weapon.

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TV/radio announcers tend to say dubble-dew dubble-dew dubble-dew because
that's how they got programmed to say the letter clearly (in station
IDs).

It probably accounts for half the bad media hype about the internet. 8^(

Only other variant I've ever heard.

Chuck

On Tuesday, May 1, 2001, at 09:07 AM, Joseph S. Barrera III wrote:

> I thought this subject was dead dead dead?
>
> Look, there's only one pronounciation that makes sense: dub dub dub.
> Everyone understands it, and it's three syllables, and I haven't seen
> anything shorter that's immediately understandable to others.

Chuck Murcko
Topsail Group
http://www.topsail.org/

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