J Y S Czhang wrote:
> >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" ...
Hmmm. I have heard me some times pronouncing something like [la Gwo Gwa
GweB] as the fast rendering in Spanish for "the world wide web"...
anyhow when reading a URL it becomes: [oBle"Be oBle"Be oBle"Be] or
something like that.
--- Carlos Th