@alina u and v used to be the same letter.
it's called "double u" because it used to be literally written as
uu

@alina in dutch it's pronounced basically the same as the english word "way"

it's so much easier in German, you just have to say wewewe punkt domain punkt tld and you're DONE

@alina awawaawawawawawawawawawa

@alina the name comes from when u and v were basically treated as the same letter, as were i and j

@alina@girldick.gay when talking about world wide web as an W.W.W. we will say from now on: ​:awawawa:​

@alina Wuhwuhwuh for me.

@alina [insert waluigi noises]

@alina Isn’t ‘dub’ slowly on its way to become the standard pronunciation of W?

@alina some Kiwis say "dub dub dub" for "www" which seems very efficient imo

@alina good points! although I would propose calling the letter "weh". weh weh weh dot mastodon dot social

@alina I support this

@alina what happened to good old dub dub dub

@alina @donmelton

@alina @donmelton It should have just been "web" from the start, e.g., https://web.example.com

@alina we should take a page out of the Arabic script’s book and call it “wao” (actually this might just be the Urdu pronunciation).

@alina I agree, IF wa must be pronounced with a Waluigi voice (Wario voice is acceptable too)

@alina wwww

@alina what about dub

@alina

@alina I'm more in the "dubdubdub" camp

@alina
In Wales they spell ambulance without a u (ambiwlans), but there is a u in police (heddlu).
WWW is pronounce OO OO OO.

Then again, they are very strange. They have a railway station called

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

I kid you not, Google it for the platform sign

@alina that's basically advocacy for web.something.tld.

@alina @donmelton From 1998. Bonus: Kibology.

https://tbtf.com/archive/1998-05-11.html#s12

followup:
https://tbtf.com/archive/1998-05-18.html#s10

@alina awawa dot domain dot TLD

@alina If enough people want to call the letter double-you a letter "wa" instead, I'm fine with that. I have no problem with the English language evolving if there's a useful reason for it.

wawawwawa

@alina Kiwis say dubdubdub :)

@alina that's kind of what sane people have been doing for millenias. welcome aboard

@alina Might be more consistent with other letters in the english alphabet to call it "ɛw" (like m, n), "we" (like b, c) or "way" (like j, k)

@alina Still remember my amazement at the never-ending well of ingenuity that is the human mind, when I first heard an advert on some local Bay Area radio where the website was advertised as "dubby-dubby-dubby-dot…"

@alina the babies on the bus say https://www

@alina I've always gone with "dubdubdub dot domain dot TLD". Well, "always" in the sense of "from the mid'90s up until I stopped mentioning the leading 'www'."

@alina in Spanish, W is "double ubbe" so you get" doubleubbedubleubbedoubleubbe punto whatever.

@alina Spanish is even worse, W is FOUR syllables instead of three

@alina After all, English pronounciation of every other letter in the Latin alphabet is a single syllable! “Wa” would be an odd man out—no other English-pronounced letter ends in “-ah”—but at least it’s more appropriate than “dub”.

@alina I love it! I'll probably be doing this whether it’s accepted or not. Usage is what changes language.

@alina wah-wah-waaaah - sad trombone style. 😄

@alina @Cdespinosa Many folks at Apple solved this years ago, as in Dub Dub Dee See and Dub Dub Dee Are.

This is the way.

@alina

@alina what are you talking about the name for W is obviously "dubya"

@alina Germans say „weh“, similar in pronunciation to „vay“, so the letter w is really easy to pronounce. Y on the other hand is pronounced „Ypsilon“, fortunately much less common in German ;)