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Why do we say WWW instead of World Wide Web?
WWW (or www) is an initialism for World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee rejected suggestions to change the World Wide Web name over pronunciation issues, arguing that this peculiar feature of the name would make it memorable. As his invention gradually gained ubiquity, it came to be called simply the Web.
Why is the dub called dubbed?
A fast way of verbalizing the WWW in a URL in the early days of the Web. Dub-dub-dub reduces nine syllables to three (“3-dub” is an alternate). Eventually websites were set up so that their URLs defaulted to the WWW prefix without it having to be typed in (see DNS). See URL, Internet domain name.
Who invented the triple W?
Founded in February 2015, Triple W Japan reflects the vision of President and CEO Atsushi Nakanishi, who created DFree after realizing incontinence, or the lack of control over one’s bladder, robbed elderly people, the physically disabled, and anyone unable to go to the bathroom without assistance, of their dignity.
Is W pronounced dub?
When spelling, every letter in the Alphabet is pronounced by a single syllable, with the only exception of W being pronounced “double-U”.
Why is a $20 bill called a dub?
Dub was shortened from double in the 1920s. Dub for double was slang for $20 (double ten) in the 1940s and for $20 worth of a drug in the 2010s, as seen in some hip-hop lyrics. Speaking of drugs, dub named a cigarette in the 1970s and then a marijuana joint in the 1990s, perhaps as a form of doobie.
Why is the letter with three syllables?
It isn’t. The letter W is pronounced as a consonant, which is less than one syllable. The name of the letter has three syllables: “double U.” The name of the letter reflects the evolution of the letter from a double U (or double V, at a time when U and V were different ways of writing the same letter).
Why is the letter “W” called “Double U”?
Q: Why is the letter “w” called “double u”? It looks like a “double v” to me. A: The name of the 23rd letter of the English alphabet is “double u” because it was originally written that way in Anglo-Saxon times. As the Oxford English Dictionary explains it, the ancient Roman alphabet did not have a letter “w.”
Why does the “W” look like a double-V?
This is why the “w” that we know and love today looks like a double-v, despite being pronounced double-u. The “w” we know and love in print is very clearly made up of a double-v. In cursive, however, or certain fonts and handwriting samples, the “w” is much more like the phonetic double-u.
Why do we use a double u for the w sound?
So, Norman French used a double U to represent W sounds in words. (This history explains pairs like warranty / guarantee, but we’ll save that story for a different time.)
Why is “U” written as a double form of “V”?
To distinguish the sound of “w” from either “v” or the up and coming “u”, a double form of “u” was taken to represent the original Classical Latin “v”, written as ‘uu.’ Compound letters used to represent a phoneme are called a digraph.