positionality = "social status or position"

[Evan Bradley]

How about "world wide web" - That's what it stands for, and it has
half the syllables of the abbreviation!


> 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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