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 speechβ€”you have to say the whole thing.

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

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[–] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

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 πŸ‘Ž

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It's the correct way to speak a URL... dub dub dub dot something dot com == https://www.something.com

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Correct way is to double-u, not dub.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years 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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