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nkriscyesterday at 6:38 PM2 repliesview on HN

Or, of course, WWW (world-wide web) where each word of the acronym is itself a single syllable. This means the acronym is 6 syllables longer if you were speaking it.


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ddingusyesterday at 11:04 PM

A radio talk show host I really enjoyed came up with this:

.'triple double ya site dot gom."

You can say that fast and people get it.

bluebarbetyesterday at 8:13 PM

Indeed. This has to rank as one of the worst branding mistakes in history. All TBL had to do was call the subdomain "web" but instead he went for the infuriatingly fussy and tongue-tying "www".

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