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The TGWU is the Transport and General Workers Union, although I've heard them mentioned in miriad TV and radio reports, I always thought they were the TGW, because the U at the end gets swallowed up when spoken.
It's actually quite a bind to say "Double-yoo, yoo" so I propose the use of the phrase
"Tripple-yoo" as a logical progression.
Google throws up 6,610,000 occurences of "WU" so I'm sure there are instances where this would be useful.
Also, I've a suspicion that the world is a poorer place for it's lack of a "tripple-yoo".
UW
http://www.washington.edu/ Not uncommon here. Though it's pronounced "yoo-dub". [Worldgineer, Oct 21 2004]
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Is that world as in 'World Wide Web' or world as in "World Series'? |
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"Sextuple-yoo" will then logicly replace "double-yoo, double-yoo, double-yoo". |
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Wait! How do you know whether "tripple-yoo" means WU or UW? When I say "sextuple-yoo" I may mean wuuuu or uuuuuu or uwuuu or... |
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//How do you know whether triple-yoo means UW or WU?//
#1: "Yoo double-yoo" is easier to hear properly than "Double-yoo yoo", so it doesn't need to be changed.
#2: UW is so uncommon that you might never come across it anyways. (EDIT, Maybe I should scratch that, but the first still holds well.) |
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Similarly, you can safely assume that sextuple-yoo is WWW, not WUUUU! ;' ) |
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ha ha ha ha, I love the sound of all the annotations above! |
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"UW is so uncommon that you might never come across it anyways." |
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Google says that UW is actually 2.5 times more common than WU, giving 16,100,000 occurences. |
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Looks like tripple-yoo needs to be an addition rather than a replacement then. One would use tripple-you when the context made it clear which combination of U and W were appropriate. |
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UW = underwriting. Next time a salesperson tries to sell you insurance, ask what kind of triple-u there is. While he's hopelessly bewildered, RUN! |
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P.S. shouldn't the letter M be "double-n"? |
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Here in the Seattle area we pronounce UW as "You Dub", therefore still not requiring a "Triple-yoo" pronunciation. |
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//Here in the Seattle...// |
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Well, if the idea was intended to be interpreted locally then here in México we don't have words with the letter "w". Not even one. |
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If we were to judge HB ideas in a local basis this website would be too boring. |
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//judge...local basis// No, no! You will ALL to adopt the "You-Dub" pronunciation! [Maniacal laughter...] |
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No "W"? How do you get to www.half.......? |
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There used to be a discussion here somewhere about 'treble-u' as a replacement for www. Darned if I can find it, though. |
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Was it the one I have linked just now [RayfordSteele]? |
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Tripple-yoo-hoo, now three times as chocolately. |
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(Oh, and since I work, sorta, in the radio buisness I hear some DJs go 'tripple W dot...' instead of 'www') |
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Yep, that would be the one. |
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For web addresses, I've always liked "Dub dub dub dot" as a spoken prefix. |
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So would this be a triple-vé "en Français?" |
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