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    Re: Bad Choices —Matthew Miller
   (...) People here at Boston University say "edjoo". And the domain has been around since 1986, so it's likely they know. :) It's so much less work to say. And look at usenet: no one calls the comp hierarchy the see oh em pee hierarchy, for example. (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: Bad Choices —Mark Sandlin
   Hehe. Once I was speaking to someone about a URL, and instead of saying "double-you double-you double-you" or "triple dub" she said "wuh-wuh-wuh." ~Mark (...) around (...) "web" to (...) on "web" (...) dot org (...) double-yoo (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: Bad Choices —Jennifer L. Boger
     (...) I can handle "dub-dub-dub", but that one's just bad. :) (24 years ago, 24-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: Bad Choices —Frank Buiting
   (...) Heh, I hear that all the time... the dutch pronounciation of 'w' sounds like 'way' so www.lugnet.com is in dutch 'way-way-way-puhnt-l...puhnt-kom' Some dutchies forget that the english 'w' sounds like 'double-you' and automatically give an (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 

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