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I very strongly prefer dub, but no one I say it to gets it unless I explain it to them.

I am fancy, so I say double ewe.

Double you

Canadians here.

It's "double-you", but if spoken quickly, it can become "dub-you"

“Double U”.

Dubya

What is a "westerner"?

Normal conversational speed: dubya

Enunciating: double you

Need to be unambiguous: whiskey

When talking about the letter of the alphabet, I say "double u"

When that letter occurs in a word, it's pronounced with pursed lips and full throated vowel sound like in "water"

Doubleyou

"Dubble-you"

Not saying where I'm from.

in english: double you in german: ve (german e, idk how to tell it to someone only knowing english)

Double V (pronounced double vé, so it’s double you in English).

www is "double vé double vé double vé" in France, but often said "vévévé" in Switzerland. I believe that’s coming from the German speaking part of the country and adapted to French language.

Kansan here. It's pronounced "double-you," but my mouth tends to skip past the L so it sounds more like "dub-you" or "dub-yə"

Way to complicated, just say "we" with the w from way and the e from hell like we Germans do.

I'm a silly lil guy so I pronounce it "Wubble Wu" for fun.

In Swedish the letter w is called "dubbel v", apart from when spelling URLs, then we just say something like "ve, ve, ve, punkt, de, änn, punkt, äss, e" if we wanted to say the URL "www.dn.se".

Double you

It probably depends on the accent, but we say "Double U".

Double you.

I'm American, fwiw. Formally I say "double you," informally I say "dub."

How someone is pronouncing W is actually a good way to guess where the speaker is from, or where the person that taurht them learned english.

double you for british/american accents

dubba you for some american accents

Dablu or dabloo is a clear indication that the speaker is not a naitive western english speaker, usually indicating indian for the speaker.

double v (often pronounced as double we) usually points towards somewhere near germany/holland/belgium

I've never heard anyone say just dub, curious if anyone has?

Edit: I lied. W pronounced 'dub' is only ever used to indicate a 'win'. e.g. 'Took the dub'

In Irish it's called wae.

In portuguese, we say "dáblio" (dah-bli-u)

In Dutch we pronounce it like "way". It's much shorter than double U.

"Dibby dubs"

I pronounce ‘M’ but upside down.

Because we say ‘double ewe’ and ‘dooblay vee’ and I find it unconscionable that we Canadians are forced to speak based on what font we are speaking in.

There's also "dubyuh" that's fairly common. Hell, we had a president that pronounced it that way.

I've always wondered why it's not double v, but I say double you

dubbuhlyou