Normal conversational speed: dubya
Enunciating: double you
Need to be unambiguous: whiskey
More like duba-you instead of dubya in normal conversation.
Canadians here.
It’s “double-you”, but if spoken quickly, it can become “dub-you”
Non native speaker, and both of those hold true for me as well. Unless I’m referencing a hostname with www in it; then I just say dub-dub-dub
I still stick the yous in there, haha
I used to, until I realized Moxie Marlinspike doesn’t, so I stopped for easier pronounciation.
Doubleyou
How someone is pronouncing W is actually a good way to guess where the speaker is from, or where the person that taurht them learned english.
double you for british/american accents
dubba you for some american accents
Dablu or dabloo is a clear indication that the speaker is not a naitive western english speaker, usually indicating indian for the speaker.
double v (often pronounced as double we) usually points towards somewhere near germany/holland/belgium
I’ve never heard anyone say just dub, curious if anyone has?
Edit: I lied. W pronounced ‘dub’ is only ever used to indicate a ‘win’. e.g. ‘Took the dub’
Just dub-dub-dub for a url
Or in school names, like U Dub for University of Washington.
double v (often pronounced as double we) usually points towards somewhere near germany/holland/belgium
As a Dutchie, we pronounce W as “Weigh” or “Way”. No double nonsense.
Kansan here. It’s pronounced “double-you,” but my mouth tends to skip past the L so it sounds more like “dub-you” or “dub-yə”
Double you
in english: double you in german: ve (german e, idk how to tell it to someone only knowing english)
German: sounds like “vay”
That’s something I’ve never understood about German or Russian. Both languages have letters that make the English w sound yet they have trouble with it? It’s not like the “th” sound which doesn’t exist in German so it makes no sense to me.
If you can pronounce the sound why can’t you pronounce it for w’s??
It probably depends on the accent, but we say “Double U”.
I heard a guy call it a “we” and I liked that. Such as:
“ay-we-ee” (A-W-E)“Dibby dubs”
Way to complicated, just say “we” with the w from way and the e from hell like we Germans do.
“ve”
In my Carolina drawl it comes out as “dubbayew.”
Dubba you
Duh be you
Germans, being efficient, just call it “veh”
