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.

  • Victor@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Hate to burst, but I believe “dub-y-ah” would still be 3. Even though it’s fast enough that it’s barely perceptible.

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      10 months ago

      Nah, dubyah is two syllables dub-yah. Unless you somehow make yeah into a two syllable word.

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      10 months ago

      That’s most assuredly not another syllable. Dub, as in I dub thee. Ya, as in ya, I know. There’s a glide across a very sliiiiiight E sound, but it’s also present when you just say “ya”, it’s more “e-ya”. So either “ya” is two syllables, or dub-ya is two.