btdub(s)

[Jonathan Lighter]

In the late lamented TV series _Middleman_  (2008), the hero always referred
to sidekick Wendy as "Dubby."

JL

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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.
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> -Wilson
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> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Dennis Baron <debaron at illinois.edu>
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> > Is there an entry somewhere for 'dub' =3D '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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> > read the Web of Language:
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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.
> > >
> > > Geoff
> > >
> > > Geoffrey S. Nathan
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> > > ----- "Steve Kl." <stevekl at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> > >> From: "Steve Kl." <stevekl at GMAIL.COM>
> > >> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > >> 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.
> > >>
> > >> - 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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> > >>> 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:
> > >>>
> > >>> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=3Dbtdubs
> > >>> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=3Dbtdubz
> > >>> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=3Dbtdubbs
> > >>> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=3Dbt+dubs
> > >>> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=3Dbee-tee-dubs
> > >>>
> > >>> And here's a Usenet example from 2002:
> > >>>
> > >>> ---
> > >>> 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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> -Wilson
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