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Though for the day.

Postby expat » Sat May 16, 2015 9:35 am

WWW, the initials standing for World Wide Web.
On a whole we initial things to make them shorter, to cut down a mouthful we have to spit out when talking about internet addresses............cut down, shorten........

World wide Web............three syllables

WWW .............................Nine syllables


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Re: Though for the day.

Postby Hawkeye07 » Sun May 17, 2015 12:46 am

expat wrote:WWW, the initials standing for World Wide Web.
On a whole we initial things to make them shorter, to cut down a mouthful we have to spit out when talking about internet addresses............cut down, shorten........

World wide Web............three syllables

WWW .............................Nine syllables


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Very good Matt! Another bastardization of the language dragged into the light of common sense.
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