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My pronunciations:

* FAQ is "fack", though I hear "eff-aye-que" often enough. * .edu is "dot ee dee you" not "dot ed-you", though I pronounce all of the other old-school domains as words. * .dev is definitely "dot dev", since "dev" is a word.

It may be apocryphal, but I remember reading somewhere that Tim Berners-Lee chose the name "World Wide Web" because the acronym was harder to say than the word itself.



> .edu is “dot ee dee you” not “dot ed-you”

I prefer ed-you, since it’s both shorter and matches the pronunciation of ‘education’. But when I’m feeling saucy, I pronounce .edu “dot eedoo”.




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