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[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 37 points 1 week ago

I am fancy, so I say double ewe.

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago
[-] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

"I love sheep" ~ Richie Cunningham

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago
[-] Pumafred9@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Reilly: Dary, do you know how many dudes are jerking off to your girlfriend right now? Yew! Jonesy: Wait, I actually know the answer. Yew. Sixteen point one thousand. Yew!

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[-] LastoftheDinosaurs@reddthat.com 33 points 1 week ago
[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago

Canadians here.

It's "double-you", but if spoken quickly, it can become "dub-you"

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Non native speaker, and both of those hold true for me as well. Unless I'm referencing a hostname with www in it; then I just say dub-dub-dub

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[-] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 22 points 1 week ago
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[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

George Dubya

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago
[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Apparently people who speak English

The French, Polish, Dutch, etc. are now reclassified as Asians

[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I love to poke at people's conception of Western with these questions:

Is New Zealand Western?
Is Japan Western?
Is Brazil Western?
Is South Africa Western?
Is Kenya Western?
Is Lebanon Western?
Is Israel Western?
Is Hungary Western?
Is Finland Western?
Is Russia Western?
Is Armenia Western?

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[-] superduperpirate@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Normal conversational speed: dubya

Enunciating: double you

Need to be unambiguous: whiskey

[-] MethodicalSpark@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

More like duba-you instead of dubya in normal conversation.

[-] danciestlobster@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Tell me you are from the south without telling me you are from the south

[-] stinky@redlemmy.com 15 points 1 week ago

When talking about the letter of the alphabet, I say "double u"

When that letter occurs in a word, it's pronounced with pursed lips and full throated vowel sound like in "water"

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[-] Corno@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

"Dubble-you"

Not saying where I'm from.

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[-] mcmodknower@programming.dev 10 points 1 week ago

in english: double you in german: ve (german e, idk how to tell it to someone only knowing english)

[-] clockwork_octopus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

German: sounds like “vay”

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[-] Skunk@jlai.lu 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Double V (pronounced double vé, so it’s double you in English).

www is "double vé double vé double vé" in France, but often said "vévévé" in Switzerland. I believe that’s coming from the German speaking part of the country and adapted to French language.

[-] Ledivin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Funny, opposite shortening in English - "double you double you double you" often becomes "dubdubdub"

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 6 points 1 week ago

Same in Denmark. I think it’s only English that’s weirdly pronouncing it as “double you”, even though the letter “W” is clearly two V’s 😁

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[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

It probably depends on the accent, but we say "Double U".

[-] jmj88@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

Double you.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

In Swedish the letter w is called "dubbel v", apart from when spelling URLs, then we just say something like "ve, ve, ve, punkt, de, änn, punkt, äss, e" if we wanted to say the URL "www.dn.se".

[-] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

The "äss" phonetic spelling will really help the english speakers reading it not pronounce it as "ass". Love it.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Hehe, I didn't even consider that (:

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[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

I'd probably have transcribed the letter pronunciation as 've, ve, ve, punkt, de, en, punkt, ess e'.

Just goes to show you that 'en' doesn't even follow the normal pronunciation rules of Swedish, unless we're talking about the tree, in which case it does.

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[-] med@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

How someone is pronouncing W is actually a good way to guess where the speaker is from, or where the person that taurht them learned english.

double you for british/american accents

dubba you for some american accents

Dablu or dabloo is a clear indication that the speaker is not a naitive western english speaker, usually indicating indian for the speaker.

double v (often pronounced as double we) usually points towards somewhere near germany/holland/belgium

I've never heard anyone say just dub, curious if anyone has?

Edit: I lied. W pronounced 'dub' is only ever used to indicate a 'win'. e.g. 'Took the dub'

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Just dub-dub-dub for a url

[-] proudblond@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Or in school names, like U Dub for University of Washington.

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[-] unmagical@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

I'm American, fwiw. Formally I say "double you," informally I say "dub."

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[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Way to complicated, just say "we" with the w from way and the e from hell like we Germans do.

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 9 points 1 week ago

Another great example of our German efficiency! Warum zur Hölle soll das ein Doppel-V sein? Habt's ihr alle Lack gesoffen?

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[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago
[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

Kansan here. It's pronounced "double-you," but my mouth tends to skip past the L so it sounds more like "dub-you" or "dub-yə"

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 1 week ago

I'm a silly lil guy so I pronounce it "Wubble Wu" for fun.

[-] Infrapink@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

In Irish it's called wae.

[-] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 1 week ago

In portuguese, we say "dáblio" (dah-bli-u)

[-] Panda@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

In Dutch we pronounce it like "way". It's much shorter than double U.

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[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I pronounce ‘M’ but upside down.

Because we say ‘double ewe’ and ‘dooblay vee’ and I find it unconscionable that we Canadians are forced to speak based on what font we are speaking in.

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

"Dibby dubs"

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 week ago
[-] tech_cake@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

I've always wondered why it's not double v, but I say double you

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[-] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

There's also "dubyuh" that's fairly common. Hell, we had a president that pronounced it that way.

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