\"WSOP\" and \"World Series of Poker\"
 

I could understand why people would rather write "WSOP" instead of "World Series of Poker". The former is much more convenient.

What I can't understand is why people would rather say "Double You ES Oh Pee" instead of saying "World Series of Poker". There are six syllables for each but saying "World Series of Poker" is much clearer and unambiguous.

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ok?

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Same thing with "George Washington Bridge" which people sometimes say "Gee Double-U-Bee."

The illusion of brevity.

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Why is shorter better? Are you rushing headlong to your appointment with your tombstone?

Who cares?

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It's the lazy pe;ple that are the most efficient.

We can learn a lot from watching how a lazy person would do things.

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We can learn a lot from watching how a lazy person would do things.

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NOT to equate being lazy with having one leg, but Dave Atell has a joke about only asking directions from one-legged men, as you know they know the most efficient way of getting from Point A to Point B.

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WHat about "double u double u double u" vs. "world wide web" 9 syllables instead of 3. (BTW, I know some folks you say "dub dub dub"

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maybe because typing world series of poker takes a lot longer than typing wsop but saying wsop takes less than a second longer than saying world series of poker.

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I've never heard anyone say each letter in WSOP. If someone did, I would laugh at them.

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I've never heard anyone say each letter in WSOP. If someone did, I would laugh at them.

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What do they usually say? WSO, WS, W? I think MOST of the time I hear it spoken, its all four letters. Please don't laugh at me.

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I frankly just like how GWB sounds, plus it gets double bonus points for confused out of towners who wonder why I am driving over the president.

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I'm going to lie awake worrying about this now.

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Same thing with "George Washington Bridge" which people sometimes say "Gee Double-U-Bee."

The illusion of brevity.

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Those are both 5 syllables.

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Same thing with "George Washington Bridge" which people sometimes say "Gee Double-U-Bee."

The illusion of brevity.

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Those are both 5 syllables.

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That probably explains his use of the phrase "same thing." This thread might be about played out...

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Same thing with "George Washington Bridge" which people sometimes say "Gee Double-U-Bee."

The illusion of brevity.

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Those are both 5 syllables.

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I just call it the "G-Dub". Much shorter, fo shizzle.

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I've never heard anyone say out WSOP. They usually just say the World Series of Poker, or shorten it to the World Series if it's already been established we're talking about poker.

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Who's more pathetic? The guy who started this thread, or me for reading it and all of the replies???

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Who's more pathetic? The guy who started this thread, or me for reading it and all of the replies???

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The first guy to respond to you...

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+1

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Same thing with "George Washington Bridge" which people sometimes say "Gee Double-U-Bee."

The illusion of brevity.

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Those are both 5 syllables.

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I just call it the "G-Dub". Much shorter, fo shizzle.

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Why didn't you say "for sure"? It's one less syllable.

This thread is torture.

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Same thing with "George Washington Bridge" which people sometimes say "Gee Double-U-Bee."

The illusion of brevity.

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Well, GWB does save your tongue some work.

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Whenever I see, 'WSOP', I always pronounce it in my head as "Wa-Sop".

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The letter "W" should be banned, or at least renamed so that it could be pronounced using only one syllable. I suggest it should be pronounced "wu" not "double u". Once this has been accomplished, 40% could be saved from the pronouncement of "George W. Bush" and 33.3% could be saved from the pronouncement of "WSOP". More importantly, all speeches, news reports, audio books, and lectures all over the world would all be shorter.

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I could understand why people would rather write "WSOP" instead of "World Series of Poker". The former is much more convenient.

What I can't understand is why people would rather say "Double You ES Oh Pee" instead of saying "World Series of Poker". There are six syllables for each but saying "World Series of Poker" is much clearer and unambiguous.

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for the love of god, please go back to full contact poker forum.

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Whenever I see, 'WSOP', I always pronounce it in my head as "Wa-Sop".

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My fiance actually says this out loud, pretty much everytime it comes on TV. I think she thinks its pretty damn hillarious, but she's so cute saying it, that I think its pretty damn hillarious too.

--Zetack

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Same thing with "George Washington Bridge" which people sometimes say "Gee Double-U-Bee."

The illusion of brevity.

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I don't know anyone who says "Gee Double-U-Bee."

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I just call it the "G-Dub". Much shorter, fo shizzle.

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Kinda like how I just say "fo shiz."

Solution
 

I got it.

World SOP? Eh? Best of both worlds.

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is it really that important?