On 03/27/2011 11:25 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote:
On 03/27/11 19:52, Scott Ferguson wrote:
And Double-U Double-U - I "know" that is how it's supposed to be, but
I've spent years (delighting in) saying "wuh" "wuh" "wuh" (as in the
Magyar "w").
How about combining all three of them into 'hexa-u"?
Marc
German has a common usage for something like that: they would say
"dreimal weh" where weh would be pronounced vay. I.e., "three times
double-you."
You hear it more often in "zweimal"--two times. Zweimal Kaffee, when
you're ordering
with another at breakfast, etc.
--doug
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