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minus-square@samus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish24•1 year agoIs it really pronounced “dub”? I’ve never heard it spoken.
minus-square@lustyargonian@lemm.eelinkfedilink15•1 year agoI internally say massive win but I do hear youtubers call it massive double u
minus-square@samus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish25•edit-21 year agoIronic that pronouncing a single letter is more cumbersome than the full word.
minus-square@samus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish16•edit-21 year ago“Every single other letter is one syllable, can we just pronounce this one ‘wuh’”? “No, it must have THREE!”
minus-square@samus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish16•edit-21 year agoGermans: “Ridiculous! We will pronounce it like ‘vay’”. “Well, that’s a lot…” “…AND ‘Y’ WILL BE ‘OOPSILON’”! ಠ_ಠ
minus-squarekaselinkfedilink3•1 year ago Every single other letter Noooo, you forgot “and z” has two /s
minus-square@mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-21 year agoI call it zed or zee both have one syllable ri8?
minus-square@prayer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink7•1 year agoYeah, unless it was a really important win, then you might say it out entirely to emphasize your utter dominance over them.
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
Noooo, you forgot “and z” has two /s
I call it zed or zee both have one syllable ri8?
Yeah, unless it was a really important win, then you might say it out entirely to emphasize your utter dominance over them.
I always hear it as double u
Duh-b
Not exclusively, but sometimes.