positionality = "social status or position"

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:59 PM -0400 8/28/07, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>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

I prefer "tridub".  "Tripdub" sounds too much like "tripped up", and
I don't like the other options on that web site.  wuh wuh wuh?  dub
dub dub?  no no no.  double-you cubed?  no thanks.

LH

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