Pronouncing WWW and World Wide Web


	Pronouncing WWW and World Wide Web

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4-14-2007 2:08 PM

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<P>The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than its long form.</p> <P>– <CITE>Douglas Adams, <I><A title="The Independent" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Independent">The Independent on Sunday</A>, 1999</I></CITE></p> </BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=World_Wide_Web&oldid=122768697"><P>In <A title="Chinese language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language">Chinese</A>, the World Wide Web is commonly translated to <I>wàn wéi wǎng</I> (<SPAN lang="zh" xml:lang="zh">万维网</SPAN>), which satisfies "www" and literally means "ten-thousand dimensional net".<SUP class="noprint Template-Fact"><A title="Wikipedia:Citing sources" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources"><SPAN title="This claim needs references to reliable sources since March 2007">[<I>citation needed</I>]</SPAN></A></SUP></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C79A486A-8DBA-4446-8999-80E83356BF24/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>