Internet doggerel, on a pet peeve.

[pseudomonas]

Webbily, wobbly,
Timothy Berners-Lee's
Hypertext network per-
turbs me a jot.

With its prolixity
(decasyllabically):
www.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I like this a lot, but it failed initially as my default pronunciation of www has become wuh wuh wuh.

lnr

[pseudomonas]

I think you're pre-emptively solving this problem; and /'wəwəwə/'s better than all of this mess. Hopefully, given publicity, we will see /'dʌbəlju:'dʌbəlju:'dʌbəlju:/ less.

[hatter]

It worked for me, I think due to the form. But I'm generally a dubdubdub type. And coincidentally, not a fan of phonetics as a teaching methodology ?


the hatter

[rymenhild]

Hee!

[cosmolinguist]

Awesome :)

[marnanel]

IIRC Ambrose Bierce proposed that W be renamed "wow" for this sort of reason.