> From: Bert Freudenberg [mailto:bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de]
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Ned Konz wrote:
> 
> > why
> > use something that's so ponderous to pronounce ("www.") instead of
> > something like "web.")?
> 
> Well, actually that's not the fault of the acronym but of the 
> Makers of Written English.

I think it's quite accurate --- "Wibbly-Wobbly Web".  Or "World-Wide Wait".

		- Peter