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Dubba you

Doubleyou

How someone is pronouncing W is actually a good way to guess where the speaker is from, or where the person that taurht them learned english.

double you for british/american accents

dubba you for some american accents

Dablu or dabloo is a clear indication that the speaker is not a naitive western english speaker, usually indicating indian for the speaker.

double v (often pronounced as double we) usually points towards somewhere near germany/holland/belgium

I've never heard anyone say just dub, curious if anyone has?

Edit: I lied. W pronounced 'dub' is only ever used to indicate a 'win'. e.g. 'Took the dub'

Germans, being efficient, just call it "veh"

Double-you, dubya, or just dubs.

Canadians here.

It's "double-you", but if spoken quickly, it can become "dub-you"

Kansan here. It's pronounced "double-you," but my mouth tends to skip past the L so it sounds more like "dub-you" or "dub-yə"

"Dubble-you"

Not saying where I'm from.

dvojni v

Duh be you

In Portuguese: "dáblio" (which sounds almost exactly like a fastly-spoken "double you"), except that the "dou" is more like an "daah" (the "da" sound from "Ada" or "Adamant").

In English, I try to exactly pronounce it as "double you".

Sometimes I'll say "dub you" informally.

In Swedish the letter w is called "dubbel v", apart from when spelling URLs, then we just say something like "ve, ve, ve, punkt, de, änn, punkt, äss, e" if we wanted to say the URL "www.dn.se".

Double you

Double you.

It probably depends on the accent, but we say "Double U".

In Dutch we pronounce it like "way". It's much shorter than double U.

Dubya

I speak spanish so for me is “doble u”

I pronounce ‘M’ but upside down.

Because we say ‘double ewe’ and ‘dooblay vee’ and I find it unconscionable that we Canadians are forced to speak based on what font we are speaking in.

"Dibby dubs"

In portuguese, we say "dáblio" (dah-bli-u)

in english: double you in german: ve (german e, idk how to tell it to someone only knowing english)

When talking about the letter of the alphabet, I say "double u"

When that letter occurs in a word, it's pronounced with pursed lips and full throated vowel sound like in "water"

Double V (pronounced double vé, so it’s double you in English).

www is "double vé double vé double vé" in France, but often said "vévévé" in Switzerland. I believe that’s coming from the German speaking part of the country and adapted to French language.

Double you

dubbuhlyou

I'm American, fwiw. Formally I say "double you," informally I say "dub."

I'm a silly lil guy so I pronounce it "Wubble Wu" for fun.

I am fancy, so I say double ewe.