btdub(s)

[Dennis Baron]

Is there an entry somewhere for 'dub' = 'w' ?

don't forget TWA was called t-dub by employees and occasionally by
those who wanted to appear "in the know." And George Washington U is
referred to as g-dub.  Bush II as dubya has the prefixed form dub-.

DB (with no u in between the letters)
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On Dec 10, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Geoff Nathan wrote:

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> Actually it did take off in Canada, where it's frequently pronounced
> 'triple double-u', for example on radio and TV stations giving out
> URL's.
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>> There were proposals at some point to get people to pronounce "www"
>> as
>> "trip-dub," I recall, but it never took off.
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>> - Steve
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>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Benjamin Zimmer <
>> bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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>>> I was talking to a college student journalist about the effects of
>>> "text-speak" on spoken language, and she mentioned the usual
>> suspects,
>>> "LOL"
>>> (pronounced "loll") and "OMG" (pronounced "oh-em-gee"). But she
>> also
>>> mentioned the expression "btdub" (pronounced "bee-tee-dub"), derived
>> from
>>> "BTW" ('by the way'). UrbanDictionary has entries for the more
>> common
>>> "btdubs" (variously spelled) back to 2004:
>>>
>>> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=btdubs
>>> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=btdubz
>>> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=btdubbs
>>> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bt+dubs
>>> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bee-tee-dubs
>>>
>>> And here's a Usenet example from 2002:
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>>> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.music.ween/msg/666fd224428be865
>>> alt.music.ween, May 13, 2002
>>> Btdubs, Pittsburgh kicks Phile's ass as far as cities go, sorry
>> Ween, but
>>> it's true.  Go Steelers!
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>>> I don't think this one's been discussed here before, but I'd wager
>> it's
>>> shown up in elicitations of student slang from Larry, Connie, et
>> al.
>>>
>>>
>>> --Ben Zimmer
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