Loosing? Learn the English language, people!

...and the Guardian also agree:

The Grauniad are correct.

The Guardian is not plural.

I'd hate to be your parent's when you're explaining how to find stuff online...

Their parent's what?

The Guardian is not plural.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law

I have changed the title.

Trio - Dadada - Top of the Pops - 8th July 1982 - YouTube

The Guardian is not plural.
Are it not?

How do you pronounce that most contrary of acronymns, 'WWW'?

Struck by the absurdity of having an acronym that takes longer to say than its expanded form, but needing to disambiguate it from that form, I tend towards saying 'wuh wuh wuh'.

And what about pronouceable acronyms such as Fiat, laser and radar?

"The third level domain, if used"

The Guardian is not plural.

Hmm I think it sounds right in the plural. I don't know what Oliver Schick would think about this, but in my head it's like a football team. It is always, unless you're American, 'Arsenal have signed a new player' not 'Arsenal has signed a new player'. In my head this is because it represents a collective group, but I could well be wrong.

Virgin engineer came to fix our TV, said "if you get my flow" meaning "if you understand what I'm saying".

I am going to guess that he was referencing music for this, not Tampon adverts.

Hmm I think it sounds right in the plural. I don't know what Oliver Schick would think about this, but in my head it's like a football team. It is always, unless you're American, 'Arsenal have signed a new player' not 'Arsenal has signed a new player'. In my head this is because it represents a collective group, but I could well be wrong.

When a group of people/objects is being referred to as a single unit (an organisation, a team of players, a peloton of cyclists etc etc) I always thought that technically the singular should apply, regardless of whether this is actually adhered to in common usage.

I would say 'the government is bringing in a reform' rather than 'the government are bringing in a reform', for example.

However I just googled it quickly and it appears that either is acceptable in most instances in British English, dependant upon context, so I sit corrected!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law

Hehe

Virgin engineer came to fix our TV, said "if you get my flow" meaning "if you understand what I'm saying".

I am going to guess that he was referencing music for this, not Tampon adverts.

Speak English boy!

#drifteradfromhistory

You don't. Because it's not a fucking acronym, other than by a lazy definition of acronym.

How do you figure that out?
It's an acronym for "world wide web" - how is it not an acronym.

Drifter chocolate bar advert - 1992 - YouTube

How do you figure that out?
It's an acronym for "world wide web" - how is it not an acronym.

It's an initialism really, WWW is not a word, whereas Laser or Sonar etc are. Also if you use the full version of www in a URL, it doesn't even work.

So therefore as a web address it's just www, and no-one calls the internet the world wide web anyway.

and no-one calls the internet the world wide web anyway.

Remember when the BBC used to read out web URL's on TV and they really laboured over the WWW bit? Like if that bit wasn't imparted in full Beeb Queens enunciation, the whole thing wouldn't work

I like that joke where people call it the interweb. I think that it is a parody of the silly old people who don't understand the internet fully and make a mistake. It still makes me laugh out loud until my sides hurt every single time hear it.

Possibly* first used by Fred Elliot in Coronation St.

*Probably not mind.

Remember when the BBC used to read out web URL's on TV and they really laboured over the WWW bit? Like if that bit wasn't imparted in full Been Queens enunciation, the whole thing wouldn't work

Or you get stuffy old sports types, advising viewers to send in their views to an email address or contact them via a website, normally followed by the words 'whatever the hell all that is about'.

T'interwebz.

however--never
language--I realised

I don't know how I feel about these double-hyphens – wouldn't an en dash with spaces on either side be preferable?

It's an initialism really, WWW is not a word, whereas Laser or Sonar etc are. Also if you use the full version of www in a URL, it doesn't even work.

So therefore as a web address it's just www, and no-one calls the internet the world wide web anyway.

Stop making my brain hurt :-)

Now I want to add the dns for worldwideweb.lfgss.com

Their parent's what?

There parents' wut?

Hmm, I thought you had char limit on posts. Did I not hit it?

I' am' disappointz'

There are character limits.

But what if you have a lot to say?