Re: Pronouncing "HTML" (was: Results of Poll by Email No. 8)

John Cowan sekalge:
>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.
/dublej uvej/ (Castiliano) or /dublej uBej/ (Latinoamericano) is how you
name "w".

I prefer Castilian Spanish to Latin American Spanish, probably because of
"usted" &c. And I don't pronounce www, but HTML is /ejtS ti em el/ to me
(with perhaps a few colons tossed in).

Wright

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