What is your least favourite acronym?
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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At work we often say "dub dub dub".
"Dubya" is one syllable, maybe two depending on your particular accent
Edit: Unfortunately I was extremely stoned at the time of this message and that should have been "[...] two syllables, maybe one depending [...]" but I'm leaving it up as evidence of my dumbshittery since it spawned discussion. Don't do drugs kids
In what accent is "dub-ya" one syllable?
Some parts of texas
Anything more than "dub" will be 2+ syllables.
The b is silent and the vowels ran together
So "duh"?
I've heard some folks where it comes out more akin to "dubby"
Dub-by is still 2 syllables