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I wasn’t serious, but thanks for the explanation!
I’m sure it’s helpful for someone

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It was a poor explanation. Double you has 3 syllables so it has nine all up vs 3. So it takes 3 times as long. I don’t think it was about the time but the ease of saying it. World Wide Web is a bit annoying to say

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(Happy cake day! )

Yes it is, but why not just say the sound of the letter?

Way-way-way / wee-wee-wee / wuh-wuh-wuh ?

Even the dub-dub-dub someone else suggested would work.

No wonder everyone dropped the www. from their urls ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I’ve no better answer than “It just isn’t done.” Native English speakers at the very least would not interpret that as indicating the letter, they would interpret it as someone stuttering or what they’re trying to say is stuck on the tip of their tongue.

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Hang on. Don’t Germans say it “doobla-veh?”

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I don’t think it does take 3 x as long to say though, I think they both take about the same amount of time. Double-u is easy to say.

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Yea, I was surprised a German wouldn’t get it, with English borrowing so much from German.

But thanks for the chuckle!

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