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I very strongly prefer dub, but no one I say it to gets it unless I explain it to them.

I've always wondered why it's not double v, but I say double you

I heard a guy call it a "we" and I liked that. Such as:
"ay-we-ee" (A-W-E)

I'm blue

Way

dabulu

Vee

I am fancy, so I say double ewe.

Double you

Canadians here.

It's "double-you", but if spoken quickly, it can become "dub-you"

“Double U”.

Dubya

What is a "westerner"?

Normal conversational speed: dubya

Enunciating: double you

Need to be unambiguous: whiskey

Doubleyou

When talking about the letter of the alphabet, I say "double u"

When that letter occurs in a word, it's pronounced with pursed lips and full throated vowel sound like in "water"

in english: double you in german: ve (german e, idk how to tell it to someone only knowing english)

"Dubble-you"

Not saying where I'm from.

Double V (pronounced double vé, so it’s double you in English).

www is "double vé double vé double vé" in France, but often said "vévévé" in Switzerland. I believe that’s coming from the German speaking part of the country and adapted to French language.

In Swedish the letter w is called "dubbel v", apart from when spelling URLs, then we just say something like "ve, ve, ve, punkt, de, änn, punkt, äss, e" if we wanted to say the URL "www.dn.se".

Way to complicated, just say "we" with the w from way and the e from hell like we Germans do.

How someone is pronouncing W is actually a good way to guess where the speaker is from, or where the person that taurht them learned english.

double you for british/american accents

dubba you for some american accents

Dablu or dabloo is a clear indication that the speaker is not a naitive western english speaker, usually indicating indian for the speaker.

double v (often pronounced as double we) usually points towards somewhere near germany/holland/belgium

I've never heard anyone say just dub, curious if anyone has?

Edit: I lied. W pronounced 'dub' is only ever used to indicate a 'win'. e.g. 'Took the dub'

I'm American, fwiw. Formally I say "double you," informally I say "dub."

Double you

I'm a silly lil guy so I pronounce it "Wubble Wu" for fun.

It probably depends on the accent, but we say "Double U".

Kansan here. It's pronounced "double-you," but my mouth tends to skip past the L so it sounds more like "dub-you" or "dub-yə"

Double you.

In Irish it's called wae.

In Dutch we pronounce it like "way". It's much shorter than double U.

In portuguese, we say "dáblio" (dah-bli-u)