btdub(s)

[Wilson Gray]

When I bought my first short in 1962, it was referred to as either a "V-Dub"
or as a "V-Wagon," in the 'hood in L.A. But these are so obvious that I
didn't hear them anywhere else probably because I didn't be anywhere else.

-Wilson

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Dennis Baron <debaron at illinois.edu> wrote:

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> Is there an entry somewhere for 'dub' = 'w' ?
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> 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-.
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> 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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> > Geoff
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> > ----- "Steve Kl." <stevekl at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> >> From: "Steve Kl." <stevekl at GMAIL.COM>
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> >> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 3:37:54 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
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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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> >>> Poster:       Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU>
> >>> Subject:      btdub(s)
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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:
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> >>> 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.
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> >>> --Ben Zimmer
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