When giving a web adress, it's cumbersome to pronounce all nine syllables of www. So English-speakers have adopted the somewhat silly abbreviation of "dub-dub-dub." The same problem exists with Spanish, where "w" is pronounced "doble ve." The solution here, from the radio this morning: "triple doble ve." Clever.
Wikipedia has more on the worldwide variations of www.
- Steph
I liked this one.
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