Once upon a time, I helped name a conference: the Workshop on the Application of Engineering Principles to Secure Software Development (WAEPSSD). Yes, this was pronounced Way-Pissed.
In the cases of WHO and SQL, I pronounce them both ways depending on audience, phase of moon, whim, and the meter of surrounding words in the sentence. Except that I say "seeq'l" instead of "sequel" for SQL.
Where I live now has an accent distinct from where I grew up, a difference more pronounced that the geographical proximity would suggest (Maryland's like that).
I pronounce World Health Organisation as World Health Organisation as I don't need to refer to it often enough for it to be abbreviated (why pick that one, out of interest?). And www is double-yoo double-yoo double-yoo because thats how I pronounce a w.
I took a database class in college where the instructor insisted on "SQL". He'd worked for IBM's SEQUEL (http://www.15seconds.com/issue/020522.htm) group and had been involved with both the SQL and SEQUEL (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=811515) standard/docs, so he had to differentiate between them. He used "S-Q-L" for the language, "IBM Sequel" for the commercial product, and "The SEQUEL paper" to refer to the ACM doc. That seemed reasonable to me, so I stayed with that usage.
"The Who" is/are a rock band. I'll often pronounce the health bureau as "World Health Org" 'cos it's actually shorter to way. (In English, as opposed to German.)
On the rare occasions when I pronounce the "www" in a u-r-l (and I should call it a U-R-I, right?) I say "wah-wah-wah".
It has been pointed out to me that it takes more time and syllables to say "double-u, double-u, double-u" than to say almost anything else. So I say "wah-wah-wah".
Well, yeah. In the previous discussion I used lowercase for the pronunciations to more easily distinguish from the tokens that are the abbreviations ("do you pronounce FAQ f-a-q or faq?"), and it just kind of persisted.
So I say "wah-wah-wah".
Interesting. It's terse and people (presumably) know what you mean, so that sounds like a good solution.
Would you accept 3.5? "World" is one of those words that seems to have a sort of half-syllable; try as I might I can't I can't make it come out smoothly as one. (I get approximately "wor-ld", with just the tiniest vowel sound before the "l".)
u-r-l, faq, not familiar with sql, w-h-o, either skip or spell out ("double-u, double-u, double-u") depending on if the person I'm talking to seems to have clue or need it.
I learned to talk in NYC (and I live there now), but I also learned a lot of language from books (including British), PBS, foreign teachers (including bilingual schooling), etc, so I've been told fairly often that I (a) don't sound like I'm from NYC* and (b) that I sound British/other. (The "British" may also partly be some older NYC which I picked up from my great-great aunt, my grandparents, and a couple of their cousins since some older NYC is noticeably closer to "British" than modern NYC is.)
I once accidentally confused a Texan linguistics prof (who knew I was from NYC) because I'd just spent a long weekend with a Texan friend and brought back some of his accent w/o realizing it, and just today a colleague who's from western PA (I think) said I sounded like his mom 'cause I said "idjit" for "idiot" (I also pronounce it "ideeyit").
*I think this is usually meant as I don't have the stereotypical "NYC" accent (really more Brooklyn/Queens than Manhattan/Bronx - I'm not sure about Staten Island).
My "something else" is "wuh-wuh-wuh". Serves the same purpose as "dub-dub-dub" but it's easier to say because you don't have the /b/ and /d/ up against each other. OTOH (oh-tee-oh-aitch), I will say "double-you-double-you-double-you" if I don't expect my listener to be used to web address conventions and thus able to translate "wuh-wuh-wuh".
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"ftp dot woostle dot edu"
"gatekeeper dot deck dot com"
"hashbang"
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ding dang walla walla bing bang.
Sorry...couldn't help myself!
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Where I live now has an accent distinct from where I grew up, a difference more pronounced that the geographical proximity would suggest (Maryland's like that).
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And I can't say that I refer to the World Health Organization enough to really know how I would say its abbreviation
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It has been pointed out to me that it takes more time and syllables to say "double-u, double-u, double-u" than to say almost anything else. So I say "wah-wah-wah".
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Well, yeah. In the previous discussion I used lowercase for the pronunciations to more easily distinguish from the tokens that are the abbreviations ("do you pronounce FAQ f-a-q or faq?"), and it just kind of persisted.
So I say "wah-wah-wah".
Interesting. It's terse and people (presumably) know what you mean, so that sounds like a good solution.
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And, it sometimes gets a giggle. Which is never bad.
Most sites these days do sufficient routing that having the www in front is pretty useless.
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World Wide Web = 3 syllables.
DoubleUDoubleUDoubleU = 9 syllables
So, on rare occasions, I say "WorldWideWeb.livejournal.com".
(That's COM not c-o-m.)
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World Wide Web = 3 syllables.
Would you accept 3.5? "World" is one of those words that seems to have a sort of half-syllable; try as I might I can't I can't make it come out smoothly as one. (I get approximately "wor-ld", with just the tiniest vowel sound before the "l".)
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And I do it one simple syllable. :-) (I de-emphasize the r.)
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(And I think I vary on the WHO.)
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since it won't let me fill in the blanks
I learned to talk in NYC (and I live there now), but I also learned a lot of language from books (including British), PBS, foreign teachers (including bilingual schooling), etc, so I've been told fairly often that I (a) don't sound like I'm from NYC* and (b) that I sound British/other. (The "British" may also partly be some older NYC which I picked up from my great-great aunt, my grandparents, and a couple of their cousins since some older NYC is noticeably closer to "British" than modern NYC is.)
I once accidentally confused a Texan linguistics prof (who knew I was from NYC) because I'd just spent a long weekend with a Texan friend and brought back some of his accent w/o realizing it, and just today a colleague who's from western PA (I think) said I sounded like his mom 'cause I said "idjit" for "idiot" (I also pronounce it "ideeyit").
*I think this is usually meant as I don't have the stereotypical "NYC" accent (really more Brooklyn/Queens than Manhattan/Bronx - I'm not sure about Staten Island).
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Nobody knows what I mean when I say it, but it amuses me.
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