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Where in the world do you live that you need five syllables to 'GSW'?
Any English speaking country? "Gee-ess-dou-ble-u". 5 syllables.
Yeah, you're right, I'm wrong.
Not the south! Gee-ess-dub-ya ftw.
Hate to burst, but I believe "dub-y-ah" would still be 3. Even though it's fast enough that it's barely perceptible.
Nah, dubyah is two syllables dub-yah. Unless you somehow make yeah into a two syllable word.
There's a context here though, namely that it is preceded by a "bh". But I'll concede.
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.
I'm inclined to go either way on this one. It's very slight.
Say W really slowly out loud and count the syllables. Where do you live that W isn't three syllables?
I was counting double as one syllable. It's still early on Sunday morning for me here.
In a lot of the US, w is pronounced as two syllables in conversational speech: dub-yuh
That doesn't excuse my stupidity because I'd guess that the places that say dub-yuh also say eh-yuss for 's'.
A lot of them do, yes.
Netherlands. It's pronounced "way" here
Iβve heard WWW pronounced: dub-dub-dub
"Dub-yah"
Gee Ess Dub-ya
This gave me cancer
In English it's G-S-Dou-ble-U