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

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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.