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minus-square@samus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish27•2 years agoIs it really pronounced “dub”? I’ve never heard it spoken.
minus-square@lustyargonian@lemm.eelinkfedilink16•2 years agoI internally say massive win but I do hear youtubers call it massive double u
minus-square@samus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish20•edit-22 years agoIronic that pronouncing a single letter is more cumbersome than the full word.
minus-square@samus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish13•edit-22 years ago“Every single other letter is one syllable, can we just pronounce this one ‘wuh’”? “No, it must have THREE!”
minus-square@samus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish10•edit-22 years agoGermans: “Ridiculous! We will pronounce it like ‘vay’”. “Well, that’s a lot…” “…AND ‘Y’ WILL BE ‘OOPSILON’”! ಠ_ಠ
minus-square@samus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoThey do, but it’s silly when the vast majority of letters are pronounced with one syllable.
minus-squarekaselinkfedilink2•2 years ago Every single other letter Noooo, you forgot “and z” has two /s
minus-square@prayer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink4•2 years agoYeah, unless it was a really important win, then you might say it out entirely to emphasize your utter dominance over them.
minus-square@wheeldawg@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agoHonestly don’t think it’s universal, but most of the time, yeah.
Is it really pronounced “dub”? I’ve never heard it spoken.
I internally say massive win but I do hear youtubers call it massive double u
Ironic that pronouncing a single letter is more cumbersome than the full word.
u v DOUBLE U x y z
“Every single other letter is one syllable, can we just pronounce this one ‘wuh’”?
“No, it must have THREE!”
English is indeed a funny language.
Germans: “Ridiculous! We will pronounce it like ‘vay’”.
“Well, that’s a lot…”
“…AND ‘Y’ WILL BE ‘OOPSILON’”!
ಠ_ಠ
TIL!
Lots of languages do upsilon, it comes from greek
They do, but it’s silly when the vast majority of letters are pronounced with one syllable.
Noooo, you forgot “and z” has two /s
I always hear it as double u
Yeah, unless it was a really important win, then you might say it out entirely to emphasize your utter dominance over them.
Not exclusively, but sometimes.
Duh-b
Honestly don’t think it’s universal, but most of the time, yeah.