Hacker News Reader

> It has various pronunciations: what-wee-gee, what-wig, what-double-you-gee.

https://whatwg.org/faq#spell-and-pronounce

"What double you gee"

Just think of "What would Jesus do?" and leave off the last two syllables.

"What working group"

I instinctively read it as "what-wee-gee"

That is how a lot of us say it.

I always thought it to be "what wig".

what-wig

I say "wot-wug", but then I've never actually had a spoken conversation about web-standards in over 20yrs of making websites (mostly non-commercially)

depending on accent, those pronunciations can be pretty close