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.

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    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 👎

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      People in my old company used to genuinely say dub dub dub as in “double-u double-u double-u”. Fucking dicks 😂.

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            Correct way is to treat “www.” as silent and not even say it or type it. Then if a URL doesn’t support non-www URLs, don’t do business with them.

            Extra credit: block www.* on you pi-hole or other DNS filter so you avoid those sites that force-redirect domain.com to www.domain.com.

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          I wonder how much they paid to have that domain name only for it to only show the word “something” there

      • @sgtskully@feddit.de
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        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.