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.

    • Victor
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      Hate to burst, but I believe “dub-y-ah” would still be 3. Even though it’s fast enough that it’s barely perceptible.

      • @nixcamic
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        1 year ago

        Nah, dubyah is two syllables dub-yah. Unless you somehow make yeah into a two syllable word.

        • Victor
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          11 year ago

          There’s a context here though, namely that it is preceded by a “bh”. But I’ll concede.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        That’s most assuredly not another syllable. Dub, as in I dub thee. Ya, as in ya, I know. There’s a glide across a very sliiiiiight E sound, but it’s also present when you just say “ya”, it’s more “e-ya”. So either “ya” is two syllables, or dub-ya is two.

        • Victor
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          11 year ago

          I’m inclined to go either way on this one. It’s very slight.