pronouncing abbreviations (poll)

[cellio]

The discussion in my previous entry has made me curious, so... poll time!

[Poll #727470]

Comments

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

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".

[cellio]

(and I should call it a U-R-I, right?)

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.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Interesting. It's terse and people (presumably) know what you mean, so that sounds like a good solution.

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.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Also note that the abbreviation, if pronounced, is longer than the thing it abbreviates.

World Wide Web = 3 syllables.
DoubleUDoubleUDoubleU = 9 syllables

So, on rare occasions, I say "WorldWideWeb.livejournal.com".

(That's COM not c-o-m.)

[cellio]

Apropos of nothing...

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".)

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

I, you see, have no accent. :-)

And I do it one simple syllable. :-) (I de-emphasize the r.)

[cellio]

Whoops, I missed that you said URI, not URL. I thought you were talking about capitalization.