What is your least favourite acronym?

thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 358 points –

Mine is OOO for Out Of Office. I always misread it in my head like a ghost and it takes me a few seconds to process. It also doesn't translate to speech—you have to say the whole thing.

Interested to see if others have similar acronyms they beef with.

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Where in the world do you live that you need five syllables to 'GSW'?

Any English speaking country? "Gee-ess-dou-ble-u". 5 syllables.

Not the south! Gee-ess-dub-ya ftw.

Hate to burst, but I believe "dub-y-ah" would still be 3. Even though it's fast enough that it's barely perceptible.

Nah, dubyah is two syllables dub-yah. Unless you somehow make yeah into a two syllable word.

There's a context here though, namely that it is preceded by a "bh". But I'll concede.

That's most assuredly not another syllable. Dub, as in I dub thee. Ya, as in ya, I know. There's a glide across a very sliiiiiight E sound, but it's also present when you just say "ya", it's more "e-ya". So either "ya" is two syllables, or dub-ya is two.

I'm inclined to go either way on this one. It's very slight.

Say W really slowly out loud and count the syllables. Where do you live that W isn't three syllables?

I was counting double as one syllable. It's still early on Sunday morning for me here.

In a lot of the US, w is pronounced as two syllables in conversational speech: dub-yuh

That doesn't excuse my stupidity because I'd guess that the places that say dub-yuh also say eh-yuss for 's'.

Netherlands. It's pronounced "way" here

I’ve heard WWW pronounced: dub-dub-dub