From Mike Holderness
London
The problem of pronouncing the Web prefix (www) is at its most acute when
you’re making a radio programme
(Letters, 7 February, p 54). So in November
1996, the BBC Radio 4 programme The Network and I held a competition.
The definitive winner, for clarity if not for Latinate precision, was “hit-web”,
proposed by Alan Mackley. Read all about it at
http://www.poptel.org.uk/nuj/mike/compy.htm.
This correspondence is now closed—Ed
