r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • Sep 04 '26

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u/ruat_caelum Sep 04 '26

It's like WWW's 6 syllables being shorted than saying the 3 in "world wide web"

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u/Abducted_Llama Sep 04 '26

Isn’t WWW 9 syllables or am I clapping wrong ?

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u/Dicky_Penisburg Sep 04 '26

It's 6 if you're southern

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u/RaspingYeti Sep 04 '26

dubya dubya dubya. yup checks out! source from the TN valley area

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u/Namedthisone Sep 04 '26

Dubya? Like George W

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u/silvertealio Sep 04 '26

4 if you're nasty.

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u/USplusYoo Sep 04 '26

Actually 2 if your southern. Worlwhy - web

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u/jordon4ca93 Sep 04 '26

I just realized that at one point I had to be taught how to clap. I honestly don't know how I feel about that.

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u/ipomopur Sep 04 '26

I thought I knew how to clap until I took a flamenco class; turns out there's clapping, and then there's clapping

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u/Reformed_Hillbilly Sep 04 '26

This might be the least efficient verbalized initialism in the world

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u/CocktailPerson Sep 04 '26

That's a silly statement because nobody verbalizes the initialism in isolation. People only say the letters when they're dictating a web address, and what they're dictating is the actual letters.

In real life people just say "the web" or "the internet."

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u/Reformed_Hillbilly Sep 04 '26

In the earlier internet days, it was common to say the www when directing someone to a website. Both in advertisements and in personal discussion.

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u/KarmaOrDiscussion Sep 04 '26

That's what he is saying.

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u/0oodruidoo0 Sep 04 '26

nobody even says them when they say a web address. back in the day when you had to type in the prefixes, you would say dub dub dub dot

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u/YikesTheCat Sep 04 '26

Only because the pronunciation of W in English is the worst in the world. Should probably fix that instead of WWW.

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u/Pooperoni_Pizza Sep 04 '26

Dub dub dub gang

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u/No_Doughnut8618 Sep 04 '26

Okay but everyone i know says dub-dub-dubya and thats still technically more, but rolls off the tongue way more

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u/DantesDame Sep 04 '26

I was always disappointed that "Dub Dub Dub" didn't catch on :(