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Letter: Letters : Wow, wow, wow

Published 15 November 1997

From Bob Johnson, University of Durham

On the “www mouthful”, rather than adopt Dave Yost’s suggestion of changing
“www” in your URLs to “web”
(Letters, 25 October, p 58), I propose an
alternative and perhaps simpler pronunciation convention, already successfully
adopted by people called Cholmondeley, especially those who live in
Milngavie.

That is, just pronounce “www” as something easier, such as “wow”, for
instance.

Issue no. 2108 published 15 November 1997

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