positionality = "social status or position"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 8/28/07, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> >Perhaps it's the contamination of saying "double-u, double-u,
> >double-u" so many times that makes syllables seem cheap.
> >   L. Urdang
> >   Old Lyme
>
> Yes, in a way it's surprising that hasn't turned into "Tridub" or
> something similarly reduced by now.

Well, there's "tripdub", apparently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_%22www%22


--Ben Zimmer

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