• helloyanis@jlai.luFrançais
    12·
    4 months ago

    Here in france, everyone says “3w”. Pronouncing it entirely sounds like “Double V, double V, double V” so “3w” sounds like “Trois double V”, which funnily enough, is still longer than world wide web!

    • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      4 months ago

      But in French “W” is often abbreviated to “V”. Like BMW --> Beh Ehm Veh (often shortened even further to “Beh Ehm”).

      So WWW would be “veh veh veh”.

      In any case “World Wide Web” is quite the mouthful for the average French speaker.

      • howrar@lemmy.ca
        5·
        4 months ago

        BMW is a German company. Are you sure that’s not just people saying it in German?

        • ours@lemmy.world
          1·
          4 months ago

          The French using a foreign language? Ha!

          Joke aside no, and I’m a native French speaker living in a French speaking region.