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submitted 8 months ago by thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Mine is OOO for Out Of Office. I always misread it in my head like a ghost and it takes me a few seconds to process. It also doesn't translate to speech—you have to say the whole thing.

Interested to see if others have similar acronyms they beef with.

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[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

CAPTCHA is pretty bad, apparently it’s Completely Automated Public Turing-test to tell Computers and Humans Apart

Source: http://www.captcha.net/

Edit: I also dislike www, it’s annoying to say 👎

[-] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

People in my old company used to genuinely say dub dub dub as in "double-u double-u double-u". Fucking dicks 😂.

[-] sgtskully@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

I never understood why it's called double-u. It looks more like a double-v. Most of the time, the sound in words is even more similar to a V than a U. There is probably some reason in ancient versions of the letters.

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