On 03/27/2011 11:25 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote:
On 03/27/11 19:52, Scott Ferguson wrote:And Double-U Double-U - I "know" that is how it's supposed to be, but I've spent years (delighting in) saying "wuh" "wuh" "wuh" (as in the Magyar "w").How about combining all three of them into 'hexa-u"? Marc
German has a common usage for something like that: they would say"dreimal weh" where weh would be pronounced vay. I.e., "three times double-you." You hear it more often in "zweimal"--two times. Zweimal Kaffee, when you're ordering
with another at breakfast, etc. --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley