It feels wrong

(I understand the joke, please don't explain it)
- Dreifaches Doppel-Du
- HTTP Error 400
  My favorite joke
- I don't, please explain.

That's why I say "dub dub dub" it confuses people and I have to explain that it's www which is short for world wide web but I saved a little bit of time by saying dub dub dub......wait a minute......
- honestly I think w should be renamed "dub". stupid long-ass name for a single letter
  
  Yeah dub would bring it back in line with all the other letters, which are single syllable. Get your shit together, W.
- It saves a lot of time once you have established it. You invest time when establishing it and get a fraction of it back once a mentionable amount of people know it
- Dubya dubya dubya
- Three-dubs
- I read that is dumb dumb dumb
- Pro wrestling fans of ECW support your cause.
- I say triple dubs
- .....Double You Bee

not in my language
- Pretty much in every language but English.
  
  Spanish would be doble ve doble ve doble ve
  In double checking my work, it looks like the alphabet got reduced and the name of w changed.
  Now it's doble uve doble uve doble uve
  
  At least we have Japanese beat.
  ダブルユーダブルユーダブルユー or daburuyu daburuyu daburuyu
  12 syllables vs 9 haha

- If serious, it's because double-you, double-you, double-you (6 syllables) vs world-wide-web (3 syllables). A syllable sort of represents the amount of time it takes to say something.
  So it takes twice as long to say www.
  If not serious, yes, it's because your German. But then again, German humor isn't really that.
  
  I wasn’t serious, but thanks for the explanation!
  I’m sure it’s helpful for someone
  
  It's worse! 9 syllables!
  
  Per other poster, dou-ble-you (I didn’t catch that myself)
  
  you're*

In Dutch www is faster. Never understood why one would give a letter a name that consists of 2 parts.
- I don't get why w is called double u when it's clearly a double v
  
  It's a long story. In short: In Latin script u and v were the same letter "u" but had two pronunciations depending on whether it was being used as a vowel or consonant. But when adapting the alphabet to Germanic languages (including Old English) the same two sounds were from two different letters, so they put two "u"s together to make double u: vv.
  The full story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2j7mZ9-2Y
  
  In some languages (Spanish, for example) it's double v.
  
  U and V used to be the same letter
- how do you pronounce Y ?
  
  In Flanders (at least where I'm at) we usually say I grec, but when doing math or reciting the alphabet, we say IJ.
  
  Usually same as our compound letter "ij", similar but not quite how you'd prononuce the word "eye". Less commonly it's pronounced as "i-grec" (greek i) or "ypsilon".
  
  Sound like igrek.
  
  Üpsilon
  
  In Swedish I pronounce y as y. It has its own sound and doesn't sound like another letter, so it can't be written as a combination of other letters.

In Irish we say "wuh". And "punk" for dot.
Wuh wuh wuh punk lemmy punk world
- Sounds like dubstep!
  
  Irish Dubstep
- in Germany we say weh and punkt
  
  veh written with english pronunciation in mind
- I like the Spanish radio commercials like you’ll hear in California:
  […] PUNTO COM!!!
  (website dot com and in a booming voice)
- Back in the day at work we used 'dub-dub-dub' for www. (around 2000)
- Hahahaha, love it!

i've often heard it called dubdubdub
- By breakfast crews on crappy radio stations.
  
  Possibly

wee wee wee
- All the way home
- Weeeee3

In Dutch it’s whey-whey-whey.
I still remember when companies started mentioning their websites in commercials.
It was one big torrent of whey-whey-wheys.
- Same in Russian - it's something like "wehwehweh"
  
  Same in German.
  
  Close to whe in when.
- So the solution is very simple: everyone should become dutch
- In Italian it's "vuvuvu", ez
  
  that's my 6th favourite thing about Italy
- I speak Dutch but (we, in this region) don't pronounce the y sound at the end.

“Dub dub dub”.
- It has to be 30 years that I've been using this. I might have said the full term a couple times at the start but that quickly ended.
- If you skip the "b", you can speed it up even more with "dudududu" to include the dot.
- Trip dub

Dub Dub Dub.
But also, "the web." "Online."

Not in Sweden. Veveve.
- I love it and will marry it.

"hexa-u"

I do not pronounce that part of a URL. Who still does that? Why would you need to do that?
- Because www.example.com and example.com, while the same website nearly all of the time, are technically different and could point to different places.
  
  True. And there's also the websites that use "en." or some other language code, and "www." just leads to the language selection.
  
  Please, tell me more
- Some people don't know how to properly DNS, and IIRC some smaller DNS services don't support CNAMEing the root.
- Because it's an artifact from a time when having a website for a business was entirely optional, and novel. This wasn't happening everywhere.
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Here in france, everyone says "3w". Pronouncing it entirely sounds like "Double V, double V, double V" so "3w" sounds like "Trois double V", which funnily enough, is still longer than world wide web!
- I always hear "triple double-V" in Quebec French.
- But in French "W" is often abbreviated to "V". Like BMW --> Beh Ehm Veh (often shortened even further to "Beh Ehm").
  So WWW would be "veh veh veh".
  In any case "World Wide Web" is quite the mouthful for the average French speaker.
  
  BMW is a German company. Are you sure that's not just people saying it in German?

Sure, but you sound like an absolute psycho saying "world wide web.MidgetPorn.edu"
- I'd like to know what scholarships are available for that.
  
  Check them out at world wide web.ClownPenis.org

Just perform a constant hum: "vvvvvv"
- Now I want to listen to come chiptunes.
  https://youtu.be/L0gOUmQ39uk?si=75WBsRRoNtUr9SNp
- Doo da doodoo da doodoo ^(vee)

We could fix this by renaming it the Worbledy Widewibble Webbledywoowoo.

Watching old commercials is hilarious. "If YOU would like to see our locations on the world-wide-web, visit our website on your web browser by typing in w, w, w, dot, appliance, dash, direct, dot, com!"
- My favorite was "The Information Superhighway."
- It sounds too complicated for me. Probably intended for more advanced users.
- I'm surfing the information superhighway!

Just pronounce it “wuhwuhwuh”
- Dubdubdub

well i sure hate that last picture

"triple dub"

But you don't type world wide web. You type www.
- Link doesn't work for some reason..
- Do you really type www?
  
  I usually even type "https://". Even when I'm just using a browser and not writing code.
  I think it's probably the case that these days the modern browsers will automatically give you https without having to type it out (and maybe only give you the http site if the https url doesn't work?)
  But there was definitely a time when typing wikipedia.org into an address bar would give you an http:// address.
  A lot of sites even then would immediately redirect you to an https version, but if you put a whole-ass path in, the request for that path would go over the internet tubes in plaintext before the the redirect came back. Which is roughly no better in many cases than if the site doesn't even redirect you to an https version.
  
  No one types www
  It's https//:

I generally say “werwerwer”.

wawawa
- sorry not sorry

Call it WoWaWe

ViViVi
- ...or EmacsEmacEmacs, if that's your thing.

when visiting my dutch family I noticed how faster "vay vay vay" is, so I started thinking vévévé in french instead of "double v" x3 (btw this is a double u : uu) I've said it out loud a few times by accident and people don't question it. I think we all agree it's a bit silly to pronounce.
...
I have an intense and fascinating life.
- we pronounce it va ya yay
  
  For my own edification, you pronounce vévévé as vah-yah-yay?

That's why it's pronounced dub-dub-dub.

I don't trust websites that still start with www.
- Why not? (Serious question, I'm a DNS engineer so this is super relevant to me)
  
  Because it's super old fashioned. I'd expect that most of the time you host a website, you want your default domain to be the website, because that's almost exclusively the one people might have to type in or read.
  You can use content-type, accept, and/or user-agent headers to route to the appropriate non-html resources and APIs, or if you really need, those are the resources hidden behind client-specific or purpose-specific subdomains.
  If they're not making their default domain their website, then I don't believe they take their website seriously.

Even faster to say Net

true story. Just as many syllables as 1 W.

Anyone else not realize the swirls were part of a watermark and just think that was supposed to be part of his haircut?

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- Still twice as long to say as word wide web!

To play devil's advocate, yes, "w" is technically three syllables in English, but they're easy enough to blur together. Meanwhile, the actual "w" sound is comparatively labor intensive, and "-orld" even more so. We're in purple burglar alarm world.
- "doub-ya"

Say "dubdubdub" or "dubbadubdub". "winwinwin" would also be acceptable.

When is it necessary to say www?
- Just now!
- When they set the site up poopy
  Usually happens in the reverse though, so it’s necessary to say it when you need to verbally communicate:
  “Hey your site works when I visit example.com but www.example.com never loads”

Visit us at double you double you double you double you double you dot!
- double you double you double you double you double you dot
  "wwww."?
  
  wwwww.
- HTTP colon backslash backslash
  (I know they're not backslashes.)

I think we should sit down and take the shortest syllable version of each word/expression from each language and combine them all into one fast language.