Yes | No | Report from double-u wrote 9 weeks 5 days ago. From Wordnik.com. [What's your set-up?] Reference
Yes | No | Report from double-u wrote 12 weeks 5 days ago. From Wordnik.com. [Rangefinders] Reference
Yes | No | Report from double-u wrote 10 weeks 14 hours ago. From Wordnik.com. [Wisconsin Hunters] Reference
It is also curious that the letter w is called double-u in english. From Wordnik.com. [Romans, Rums, Greeks, Turks and German Emperors] Reference
Yes | No | Report from double-u wrote 12 weeks 6 days ago carbon clothing certainly cant hurt. From Wordnik.com. [Scent Control] Reference
More than this, the press of enunciation is aimed toward the very object of its own discursive gesture across the drift from the phonetically denominated "double-u" to its single and more immediately recognized graphic variant. From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
WWW "double-u double-u double-u", then it's best to call it an initialism. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
His efforts to vault lingually over the first "double-u" excited much mirth. From Wordnik.com. [Joan of Arc of the North Woods] Reference
Old-English, V is the same letter as U, and these two V's stand for double-u, or W-- for Walter. From Wordnik.com. [St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, V. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated] Reference
A.W.O.L., could be pronounced by its initial letters ("ay double-u oh ell") or acronymically ("ay-wol"). From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Those listed above are probably more often uttered as abbreviations -- "eff tee dee," "aitch ee double-u,". From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 2] Reference
Just because it is 'pronounced' as a word does not make it any less a simple abbreviation in fact an increasing number of commentators here refer to the place as the "double-u eh see eh". From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Still, perhaps this is needed; Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo wrangled over it in that comic way they do on Radio 5, Mayo championing the more traditional ( 'double-u'), Kermode opting for the southern plunge that it most surely implies. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
Not only might we save paper, but think of all the time we’d save by not speaking “double-u double-u double-u”. From Wordnik.com. [The Web’s Inventor Regrets One Small Thing - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
To fall on double-u like lead. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Hey Bob, Where’s Your Letter?] Reference
Oh double-u oh double-u. From Wordnik.com. [mais-oui Diary Entry] Reference
"double-u double-u double-u.". From Wordnik.com. [Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition] Reference
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