Talk:Pronunciation of "www"

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After the line "In many languages which give the letter W a name that translates to "double V", each w is substituted by a v, so www is shortened to "vvv" instead of, for instance:" one would expect to see examples for languages in which www is pronounced as vvv. Instead the examples listed show pronounciation as www. As a Hungarian myself I can tell that we always pronounce it as vvv, and I'm fixing the Hungarian line to be a good example, but I don't know about the other languages listed. Cyhawk 11:33, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Oops, I missed the "instead of" part of the sentence in question. However then I find it a bit confusing that the article intentionally lists possible pronounciations for www that are _not_ in use. I better not try to fix it then, but just note that in Hungarian the pronounciation is "vé, vé, vé". Maybe these actually used forms of pronounciation could at least be listed with those not used. Cyhawk 11:37, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spanish www (Spain)

I would just like to point out that the most common way to say it in Spain is "tres uve dobles", closely followed by "uve doble, uve doble, uve doble". Thanks.

I completely agree with this. I am updating the page to reflect the common usage in Spain.--Gorpik (talk) 11:48, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] English pronunciations: cite or remove

What's up with this list of alternate English pronunciations? "Trip dub"? Man, lists on Wikipedia get out of hand! Wouldn't it suffice to say that the acronym, being of so many syllables, is sometimes shortened in non-standard ways by its users, and leave it at that? --joeOnSunset —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 06:26, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] web. instead of www.

I think "web." would have been better than "www.". One syllable rather than nine!

• Someone once suggested "dub-dot", which is only two syllables. — Loadmaster (talk) 00:20, 15 January 2008 (UTC)