How Do YOU Pronounce This In Your Head When You Read...???

Question

"JWs" (short for Jehovah's Witnesses) in the questions and answers here on R&S?

Vot has always "read" it as similar to the way I say "Jews", only with a slight pause in between, kinda like "Jewooz" (but saying the 'oo' sound very quick.

Silly question probably, but I just typed out "non-Jews" in a recent answer and realised "non-JWs" and "non-Jews" sound the same (in my head) and wondered whether anyone else "pronounces" abbreviations in their heads as they read/write them out.

Asked simply coz Vot is curious- if you don't feel like answering the question, please click on "Show me another".......

OvO

Answer 1

JWs =  pronounced as:  jay double yous

Jws = Could be a misspelling of Jews with the e key missed

[i.e. The W must be capitalized for it to represent Jehovah's

Witnesses & so as not to confuse it with a misspelling for Jews unless you drop the "s" and simply use JW or Jw or jw.]

In fact according to http://www.acronymfinder.com/JW.html "JW" as an acronym for Jehovah's Witnesses is one of the top verified acronyms for JW.

Acronym: a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation. per http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/a...

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♕ Vöt

I think I am going to have to talk to you on the phone someday just to hear what that accent really sounds like.  Ã¢Â˜Âº  Or maybe next time you post a dance video you could like say something for us? I mean in English of course.

OvO  It took me a while to realize this represents an owl

  

  Ã‚°v°   I think I got the hang of it now...  lol

⊙⋁⊙  Wide awake owl

⊝⋁⊝  Sleeping owl

⊛v⊛  Owl with stars in it's eyes [or in ♕ Vöt's case with bloodshot eyes from staying up on Y!A 24/7]

Answer 2

I pronounce it Jay-Double-Yews, actually. I assumed everyone did. :p

Peace.

Answer 3

"Jay doubleyous."

Answer 4

I read it as: Jehovah's Witnesses.

Doesn't matter to me  'how'  it's put JW's; J's W's; Jah's W's.

I put it like this; J's W's.

Answer 5

Jay Dubble Yous

I rarely get it mixed up with "Jews", although I can see how it can be done.

Answer 6

I say the letters as 4 syllables.

Answer 7

Always jay double-u's.

Answer 8

I separate the letters. J- Jay. W- double u.

Answer 9

Jay double you

Answer 10

LOL Vot is this spiritually speaking??? lol

I think jay double you.

Do you get annoyed when people abbreviate it? Just wondered because I feel like I am being offensive when I abbreviate,

Answer 11

I pronounce it as:  

the letter "J" & double "u's".

I say the letters...  I always assumed it was referring to us.

It is interesting how you view it.

♥ o\/o ♥

Answer 12

Vot! Привет!!!

I also say it in my head as 'Jewooz' or  'Jeweez' (saying the ee kind of short).

LOL LOL! I didn't realise ANYONE ever pronounced it as 'Jay doubleyous' !

Deeply Unprejudiced likes Vot. :))

Answer 13

J (ay) W (double yooz)

Hehe

Add~~~ Ok, fine. Others already beat me to it. That's what I get for not reading other answers first.

Answer 14

yes, it happens to me same as vot

Answer 15

Jay-dubble-yooz

Answer 16

i always pronounce the letters as they are normally pronounced.

Jay Double U's

Answer 17

I call them J-dubs...it's totally G

Answer 18

Jay Double u's

Answer 19

I read it as Jehovah's Witnesses myself.

Answer 20

at first i thought it meant Jews.  

Answer 21

jay dubbleyews

Answer 22

I pronounce JW's  as J. "dubs"  and Jews more like (chews with a "j")

Answer 23

It's variable. Sometimes I'll do that, sometimes I'll think of it as "Jay-Double U's".

Answer 24

With me being in and from the southern United States I pronounce it as J [Jay] W [doubleya] hahahaha!!!