[jon.kiparsky]

Atli, on 06 March 2015 - 02:20 PM, said:

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"www" is three times as long, in syllables, as "world wide web"

Good point. I've never considered that.

On the bright side, "www" is kind of redundant these days, so it's not said out loud that often.

Sure - but the point was really about spurious shortcuts, like :x in vi.