Re: Pronouncing "HTML" (was: Results of Poll by Email No. 8)
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 1, 2002, 3:25 |
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Carlos Thompson scripsit:
> 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.
I usually say [dVbdVbdVb], an abbreviation of standard
[dVbl=judVbl=judVbl=ju] when pronouncing an URL.
The abstract object is almost always "the Web".
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