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How else would you say it?
"Wwwwuuuuhh dot Google dot com"?
Edit: or I guess, "world wide web" would make more sense?
In other languages, German for instance, it's pronounced kinda like "weh" or like the letter V in English. It's easier to say that way. Back in the day I sometimes said "triple double u" to not have to say it the actual, complicated way ๐
"web" would have sounded nice and clear, we also didn't name FTP the World Wide File Transfer Protocol (WWFTP).
"Wuh-wuh-wuh", using pronunciation similar to the start of "wow" or "woman"
I've heard "dub-dub-dub". But yeah, saying the abbreviation is longer than the words it's abbreviating! ๐