xkcd #3232: Countdown Standard
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Anyone who is caught counting ‘three … two … one … zero … GO!’ will be punished with a lifetime of eating only ISO standard food samples.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3232/
The three syllable ‘w’ kinda ruins it.
Eh everyone says “dubya” anyways
Still, all other letters only clock 1 syllable. I vote we just go ahead and change the standard to “dub”.
But if we do that, we’ll need a new alphabet song!
(also, since letters [sorta] contain their respective sounds, I suggest “wub”)
Holy shit, is that why people call george w bush dubya? As a non native English speaker I wouldn’t have thought of that in a million years
Yep! Also, if you aren’t familiar with the way words are either stressed or elided in spoken english, you’re probably so confused when you hear native speakers talk 😅
We literally don’t pronounce most of the sounds in most of the words we say. If you go around pronouncing every syllable of every word you’ll sound insane