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WAP - how to pronounce it

Hello everyone,
I'd just like to kindly ask about the pronounciation of the "WAP", Wireless Application Protocol. How should one say it - "Double-U Ay Pee", reading each letter separately, like in WWW - World Wide Web - "Double-U Double-U, Double-U", or is the pronounciation "Wap", like it's one word, correct...?

greets,
j.
  

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[nq:1]Hello everyone, I'd just like to kindly ask about the pronounciation of the "WAP", Wireless Application Protocol. How should one ... World Wide Web - "Double-U Double-U, Double-U", or is the pronounciation "Wap", like it's one word, correct...?

  • [nq:1]Hello everyone, I'd just like to kindly ask about the pronounciation of the "WAP", Wireless Application Protocol.
  • How should one ...
  • World Wide Web - "Double-U Double-U, Double-U", or is the pronounciation "Wap", like it's one word, correct...?
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  • as an initialisation rather than an acronym.
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[nq:1]Hello everyone, I'd just like to kindly ask about the pronounciation of the "WAP", Wireless Application Protocol. How should one ... World Wide Web - "Double-U Double-U, Double-U", or is the pronounciation "Wap", like it's one word, correct...? greets, j.[/nq]
"Double-U Double-U, Ay - Pee"
whenever I've heard the term, i.e. as an initialisation rather than an acronym.
Fran
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In Singapore, everyone uses it like a acronym. Pronounced like 'warp'.
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[nq:1]Hello everyone, I'd just like to kindly ask about the pronounciation of the "WAP", Wireless Application Protocol. How should one ... in WWW - World Wide Web - "Double-U Double-U, Double-U", or is the pronounciation "Wap", like it's one word, correct...?[/nq]
I've heard it pronounced as /w&p/, rhyming with "cap".
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[nq:1]In Singapore, everyone uses it like a acronym. Pronounced like 'warp'.[/nq]
Okay, so I'd like to know how to pronounce it in the UK - I'm going there in few weeks and I'd like to prevent myself from fooling in front of a cell-phone seller. So - for people in the United Kingdom is WAP an initialisation or an acronym?
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[nq:2]Hello everyone, I'd just like to kindly ask about the ... pronounciation "Wap", like it's one word, correct...? greets, j.[/nq]
[nq:1]"Double-U Double-U, Ay - Pee" whenever I've heard the term, i.e. as an initialisation rather than an acronym.[/nq]
Firstly, that would be WWAP. Secondly, you need to hang around in more phone shops. It's pronounced as a word - "wap", to rhyme with "***
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[nq:2]"Double-U Double-U, Ay - Pee" whenever I've heard the term, i.e. as an initialisation rather than an acronym.[/nq]
[nq:1]Firstly, that would be WWAP. Secondly, you need to hang around in more phone shops. It's pronounced as a word ... is three. So, if I'm giving someone a URL (or an URL, if you pronounce URL to rhyme with "curl")[/nq]
which nobody does
[nq:1]I'd say "world wide w
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[nq:1]phone shops. It's pronounced as a word - "wap", to rhyme with "****", which is rather apposite.[/nq]
In UK English, as far as I'm aware, it's pronounced "wop", which doesn't rhyme either with **** or with warp (even non-rhotic warp).

Katy
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[nq:2] It's pronounced as a word - "wap", to rhyme with "****", which is rather apposite.[/nq]
[nq:1]In UK English, as far as I'm aware, it's pronounced "wop", which doesn't rhyme either with **** or with warp (even non-rhotic warp).[/nq]
I assumed it would be "wop" when I first encountered it in print, but I usually hear it from others as Will describes. I think it would have been "wop" h
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[nq:2]In Singapore, everyone uses it like a acronym. Pronounced like 'warp'.[/nq]
[nq:1]Okay, so I'd like to know how to pronounce it in the UK - I'm going there in few weeks ... front of a cell-phone seller. So - for people in the United Kingdom is WAP an initialisation or an acronym?[/nq]
We mostly say "wop" to rhyme with "cop", though I have heard "wap" to rhyme with "cap" occasionally.
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[nq:1]I'd just like to kindly ask about the pronounciation of the "WAP",Wireless Application Protocol. How should one say it - ... in WWW - World Wide Web - "Double-U Double-U, Double-U", or is the pronounciation "Wap", like it's one word, correct...?[/nq]
WAP is jargon used only within a professional
group (unlike WWW which now is used in general
English): so only that group can speci

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