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Re: Bad Choices
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Date: 
Sat, 24 Jun 2000 05:05:31 GMT
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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

In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Matthew Miller writes:
Jennifer L. Boger <jennr@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu> wrote:
to me is "edu" (ed-you) instead of e-d-u :)

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.



On a related note, I wish that the Powers That Be would have chosen • "web" to
designate the http schema, and that people would have standardized • on "web"
as the standard hostname for web servers (a la MIT).

<web://web.mattdm.org/> - web colon slash slash web dot matt dee em • dot org
<http://www.mattdm.org/> - aitch tee tee pee colon slash slash • double-yoo
                       double-yoo double-yoo dot matt dee em dot org.


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Matthew Miller                     --->                 mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                    --->              http://quotes-r-us.org/
Boston University Linux            --->               http://linux.bu.edu/



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  Re: Bad Choices
 
(...) 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
 
(...) 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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  Re: Bad Choices
 
(...) 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)

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