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douglas adams
November 2008 
Unabbreviated abbreviations
Posted on Apr 16th, 2007
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Ryan
Ryan
WWW is the longest possible three-letter acronym (TLA) to pronounce, requiring nine syllables. The late Douglas Adams once quipped:
The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.
—Douglas Adams, The Independent on Sunday, 1999
The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.
—Douglas Adams, The Independent on Sunday, 1999
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