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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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[–] prongs@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (13 children)

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

[–] Bashnagdul@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Netherlands. It's pronounced "way" here

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

So youse say way way way dot com?

[–] noli@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] ULS@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Way way way Punt!

Scooooooorrrrrreeeee!!!!

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Putting this on a T-shirt

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