Re: Pronouncing "HTML" (was: Results of Poll by Email No. 8)
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 30, 2002, 2:12 |
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In a message dated 04/29/2002 08.15.37 AM, draqonfayir@JUNO.COM writes:
>> From: "Steg Belsky" <draqonfayir@...>
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>> > Hmm... i have a habit of pronouncing "HTML" as the shorter
>> two-syllable /hUtmAL/, with a somewhat /?/-afied /t/, somewhat rounded
>>/A/, and velarized /L/. I also pronounce "www" /wUwUwU/.
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>> You mean /U/ or /V/, the latter of which I would probably use. I'm thinking
>> of /wu:w/ for WWW, having in mind a more Welsh-like realization....
>> ~Danny~ (happy birthday, Seinfeld!)
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>Definitely /U/. The entire sequence is rounded, probably because it's
>easier to keep all the sounds very close than to have to open the mouth
>wider and unround the lips in order to get /V/.
I know a hacker-type who jokingly calls the web "wow-wow" ...
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