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Thread #80017 Message #1455129
Posted By: MudGuard
08-Apr-05 - 03:41 AM
Thread Name: BS: Pronunciation of www
Subject: RE: BS: Pronunciation of www
Thanks for all the responses.
From them I read: First priority is to avoid speaking the www. Second most used version is repeating 3 times the letter w (with your local variation of how to pronounce it - doubleyew, doubleya, dubya, ...).
Mary, Volkswagen (only one o in it) is not pronounced Volksvagon. It is pronounced Vau-We or Volkswagen ;-).
The letter V is sometimes pronounced like a hard F (as in Volk or Volkswagen or Vau) and sometimes soft like a W (as in Vase - the thing you put flowers in). But the letter W is always pronounced soft.
It is hard to describe the pronunciation with written English, as English pronunciation is even less consistent (example: the letter group ough: though, thought, through, tough, ... or ea: read/read/early ... or new/sew or ...) with the written letters than in German.