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Comment by Sharlin

4 hours ago

Not to mention "www", which when pronounced is actually three times longer than its expansion.

You could shorten it to “sextuple u”.

  • Great minds think alike, but my concern was that sextuple-u sounds like you're about to tackle someone and do something.

For a native speaker in casual speech, it'll only be at most a bit slower than its expansion because English is stress-timed