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westerners, how do you pronounce the letter "w" do you say dablu or double you or just dub or double v?

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westerners, how do you pronounce the letter "w" do you say dablu or double you or just dub or double v?

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  • nocturne
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    31•5 months ago

    I am fancy, so I say double ewe.

    • @cybervseas@lemmy.world
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      11•5 months ago

      🐑🐑

    • snooggums
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      4•5 months ago

      Double yew.

      • @Pumafred9@lemmy.world
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        4•5 months 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!

  • @otp@sh.itjust.works
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    22•5 months ago

    Canadians here.

    It’s “double-you”, but if spoken quickly, it can become “dub-you”

    • @neidu3@sh.itjust.worksM
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      5•5 months 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

      • @otp@sh.itjust.works
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        I still stick the yous in there, haha

        • @neidu3@sh.itjust.worksM
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          2•5 months ago

          I used to, until I realized Moxie Marlinspike doesn’t, so I stopped for easier pronounciation.

  • @superduperpirate@lemmy.world
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    17•5 months ago

    Normal conversational speed: dubya

    Enunciating: double you

    Need to be unambiguous: whiskey

    • @MethodicalSpark@lemmy.world
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      10•5 months ago

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

    • @danciestlobster@lemm.ee
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      Tell me you are from the south without telling me you are from the south

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    • ComradeSharkfucker
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      6•5 months ago

      George Dubya

  • @orcrist@lemm.ee
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    What is a “westerner”?

    • @EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
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      Apparently people who speak English

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

  • @andrewta@lemmy.world
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    Doubleyou

  • @starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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    8•5 months 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”

  • @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    7•5 months ago

    Double you

  • @med@sh.itjust.works
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    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
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      6•5 months ago

      Just dub-dub-dub for a url

    • @proudblond@lemmy.world
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      4•5 months ago

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

    • @ShepherdPie@midwest.social
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      People call Buffalo Wild Wings B-Dubs

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

      As a Dutchie, we pronounce W as “Weigh” or “Way”. No double nonsense.

  • Elaine Cortez
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    7•5 months ago

    “Dubble-you”

    Not saying where I’m from.

    • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      Isn’t that a maple leaf though?

  • @unmagical@lemmy.ml
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    I’m American, fwiw. Formally I say “double you,” informally I say “dub.”

    • AllahOP
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      🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

  • @Infrapink@lemm.ee
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    6•5 months ago

    In Irish it’s called wae.

  • @Jumi@lemmy.world
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    6•5 months ago

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

    • @tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world
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      2•5 months ago

      “ve”

  • @darthelmet@lemmy.world
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    It probably depends on the accent, but we say “Double U”.

  • @jmj88@lemm.ee
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    4•5 months ago

    Double you.

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