Say “dubdubdub” or “dubbadubdub”. “winwinwin” would also be acceptable.
I think we should sit down and take the shortest syllable version of each word/expression from each language and combine them all into one fast language.
That’s why I say “dub dub dub” it confuses people and I have to explain that it’s www which is short for world wide web but I saved a little bit of time by saying dub dub dub…wait a minute…
honestly I think w should be renamed “dub”. stupid long-ass name for a single letter
Yeah dub would bring it back in line with all the other letters, which are single syllable. Get your shit together, W.
Three-dubs
Dubya dubya dubya
FUCK no
Pro wrestling fans of ECW support your cause.
I read that is dumb dumb dumb
It saves a lot of time once you have established it. You invest time when establishing it and get a fraction of it back once a mentionable amount of people know it
In Dutch it’s whey-whey-whey.
I still remember when companies started mentioning their websites in commercials.
It was one big torrent of whey-whey-wheys.In Italian it’s “vuvuvu”, ez
that’s my 6th favourite thing about Italy
I speak Dutch but (we, in this region) don’t pronounce the y sound at the end.
Same in Russian - it’s something like “wehwehweh”
Close to whe in when.
Same in German.
Well, In German it’s also grammatically correct
So the solution is very simple: everyone should become dutch
If serious, it’s because double-you, double-you, double-you (6 syllables) vs world-wide-web (3 syllables). A syllable sort of represents the amount of time it takes to say something.
So it takes twice as long to say www.
If not serious, yes, it’s because your German. But then again, German humor isn’t really that.
I wasn’t serious, but thanks for the explanation!
I’m sure it’s helpful for someoneIt was a poor explanation. Double you has 3 syllables so it has nine all up vs 3. So it takes 3 times as long. I don’t think it was about the time but the ease of saying it. World Wide Web is a bit annoying to say
(Happy cake day! )
Yes it is, but why not just say the sound of the letter?
Way-way-way / wee-wee-wee / wuh-wuh-wuh ?
Even the dub-dub-dub someone else suggested would work.
No wonder everyone dropped the
www.from their urls ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Hang on. Don’t Germans say it “doobla-veh?”
Nope, that would be the French 🥖
I’ve no better answer than “It just isn’t done.” Native English speakers at the very least would not interpret that as indicating the letter, they would interpret it as someone stuttering or what they’re trying to say is stuck on the tip of their tongue.
you’re*
Look man English isn’t a language it’s a mistake
Per other poster, dou-ble-you (I didn’t catch that myself)
Haha woah I had to sound it out
Always gotta clap the syllables!
It’s worse! 9 syllables!
I generally say “werwerwer”.
Anyone else not realize the swirls were part of a watermark and just think that was supposed to be part of his haircut?
But you don’t type world wide web. You type www.
Link doesn’t work for some reason…
Do you really type www?
No one types www
It’s https//:
I usually even type “https://”. Even when I’m just using a browser and not writing code.
I think it’s probably the case that these days the modern browsers will automatically give you https without having to type it out (and maybe only give you the http site if the https url doesn’t work?)
But there was definitely a time when typing
wikipedia.orginto an address bar would give you anhttp://address.A lot of sites even then would immediately redirect you to an https version, but if you put a whole-ass path in, the request for that path would go over the internet tubes in plaintext before the the redirect came back. Which is roughly no better in many cases than if the site doesn’t even redirect you to an https version.
Firefox has a setting to force https
That’s what “https Everywhere” was for, although yeah not really needed anymore.
We could fix this by renaming it the Worbledy Widewibble Webbledywoowoo.
I think this is why a lot of sites stopped using it!
U to the sixth power. Damnit not shorter.
Six U’s. There.
In Irish we say “wuh”. And “punk” for dot.
Wuh wuh wuh punk lemmy punk world
Back in the day at work we used ‘dub-dub-dub’ for www. (around 2000)
in Germany we say weh and punkt
veh written with english pronunciation in mind
I like the Spanish radio commercials like you’ll hear in California:
[…] PUNTO COM!!!
(website dot com and in a booming voice)
Sounds like dubstep!
Irish Dubstep
Dublin-step
When is it necessary to say www?
When they set the site up poopy
Usually happens in the reverse though, so it’s necessary to say it when you need to verbally communicate:
“Hey your site works when I visit
example.combutwww.example.comnever loads”Just now!
Trick is to go southern with it. Merge the last two vowel sounds into almost-one. Dub-ee-eh
Tridub
