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Mine is OOO for Out Of Office. I always misread it in my head like a ghost and it takes me a few seconds to process. It also doesn't translate to speechβ€”you have to say the whole thing.

Interested to see if others have similar acronyms they beef with.

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[–] prongs@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Say W really slowly out loud and count the syllables. Where do you live that W isn't three syllables?

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was counting double as one syllable. It's still early on Sunday morning for me here.

[–] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

In a lot of the US, w is pronounced as two syllables in conversational speech: dub-yuh

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That doesn't excuse my stupidity because I'd guess that the places that say dub-yuh also say eh-yuss for 's'.

[–] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 1 points 7 months ago

A lot of them do, yes.

[–] Bashnagdul@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Netherlands. It's pronounced "way" here

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So youse say way way way dot com?

[–] noli@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] ULS@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago

Way way way Punt!

Scooooooorrrrrreeeee!!!!

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Putting this on a T-shirt

[–] Bashnagdul@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Well, yeah way way way google punt com

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I’ve heard WWW pronounced: dub-dub-dub

[–] ULS@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

This gave me cancer