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by jbooth 5586 days ago
Nobody else says "dub dub dub"?
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It's funny because as I started to read this, my first thought was "I'm so thankful that nobody says dub dub dub anymore." My second thought was "I thought this was going to be about how difficult capital W is in deciding character limits since it's so damn wide."
I just ignore it and use the TLD when I have to relay a URL verbally. Most Web servers (at least for sites that I build or refer others to) are configured to serve pages without the www in the URL.
In my more expansive moments I've even used 'trip dub' to cut it down to even fewer syllables than letters.
I've always Stephen Fry's solution: "wuh wuh wuh", or simply say the whole thing, "world wide web". 3 syllables either way.
I'm going to start saying "World Wide Web"
I've been enjoying a meme I've spotted on pirate radio of all places: "all the doubleyous"
I prefer wub wub wub. Actually, I prefer removing it from URLs :-)
"Wubble-you."
'Sextuple-Yu'.

Just kidding... I usually say 'dub dub dub', except to very novice audiences.