Pronunciation of "W"

[Raymott]

Hi All,

Click on and listen the following link: Do you think the guy say "Dub bee u"?

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Yes he does. I'd call this normal at that rate of speech.
I double if anyone at all pronounces three perfect w's in www.
But the OP was asking about the correct pronunciation of 'W', by itself - as a native speaking child would learn it at school in their ABC.
There's an /l/ in it.

[Williamyh]

Yes he does. I'd call this normal at that rate of speech.
I double if anyone at all pronounces three perfect w's in www.
But the OP was asking about the correct pronunciation of 'W', by itself - as a native speaking child would learn it at school in their ABC.
There's an /l/ in it.

Hi Raymott, so how would you pronounce this word in your daily life? "Double u" or "Dub bee u"?

[Raymott]

Hi Raymott, so how would you pronounce this word in your daily life? "Double u" or "Dub bee u"?

It depends on what I was saying. It's "double U".
But I don't say that if I'm giving someone a URL. I say "dubyə dubyə dubyə dot..." where ə is the neutral vowel schwa.

[BobK]

If you want to transcribe it like that. He certainly doesn't pronounce an /l/. But the second syllable sounds to me like [bʊ] rather than [bi].

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[raindoctor]

It depends on what I was saying. It's "double U".
But I don't say that if I'm giving someone a URL. I say "dubyə dubyə dubyə dot..." where ə is the neutral vowel schwa.

I worked at a place where we used to support many internet applications, one of which was Company.com. We used to say "dub dub dub", since that word www was heavily used by folks there.