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.
As a kid, I was in the room at one point while my mom was watching some TV show, maybe law and order or something similar. I heard somebody letting somebody else know (verbally) the details of some victim and described the cause of injury or death or whatever as “GSW”. I asked my mom what GSW meant. She said “gun shot wound”. I said that that couldn’t possibly be right, and she was curious why. I said because “gun shot wound” is 3 syllables and “GSW” is 5; it’s literally quicker to say the full thing.
So yeah, GSW is fucking stupid when said aloud, and even me as a dumbass child knew that.
W does that in acronyms. Compare syllables in World Wide Web…
“Dubya” is one syllable, maybe two depending on your particular accent
Edit: Unfortunately I was extremely stoned at the time of this message and that should have been “[…] two syllables, maybe one depending […]” but I’m leaving it up as evidence of my dumbshittery since it spawned discussion. Don’t do drugs kids
In what accent is “dub-ya” one syllable?
I’ve heard some folks where it comes out more akin to “dubby”
Dub-by is still 2 syllables
Some parts of texas
Anything more than “dub” will be 2+ syllables.
The b is silent and the vowels ran together
So “duh”?