How do you pronounce DAW?

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How do you pronounce DAW?

  • Dee-Eh-Double-You

    Votes: 7 16.3%

  • Daww

    Votes: 24 55.8%

  • Digital Audio Workstation

    Votes: 3 7.0%

  • You're a fool for asking, OP

    Votes: 9 20.9%
  • Total voters
    43
SloppyJo

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This seems like a silly thread, but I'm curious as to what people call Digital Audio Workstations for short.

I've always pronounced it Daww, as in the beginning of D'awesome. But I think in my neck of the woods people call it Dee-eh-double-you more often.

So how do you pronounce DAW? :D

Poll up.
 
In my head, it's 'Dee Ay Double-You'. I never say it out loud (dunno if I ever have).

When I watch YouTube videos and people pronounce it as a word, I think it sounds weird.
 
I've never said it out loud, either. I usually refer to brand names I suppose. But when I read it in my head, my head says "door".
 
jonny deep said:
When I watch YouTube videos and people pronounce it as a word, I think it sounds weird.
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I agree. Not that I watch Youtube videos on recording, but it's one of those "words" that I read and don't really even pronounce in my head. . But I never hear it in my head as "Daw".
 
In verbal conversations I pronounce it "the Box".
 
am i weird for pronouncing it "door"? then again, i do say the word quite a lot and, as a well spoken southern Englishman, it's my duty to pronounce words with extra "r" sounds in, like baRth, graRss, faRst, caRst
 
Acronyms I'm guessing are for making a long string of words into an easy and quickly spoken thing.

But I think "Daw" is more efficient then D-A-W. The word rolls of the tongue nicely so why not?

But then again you wouldn't pronounce CEO as a word...
 
Justsomeguy said:
am i weird for pronouncing it "door"? then again, i do say the word quite a lot and, as a well spoken southern Englishman, it's my duty to pronounce words with extra "r" sounds in, like baRth, graRss, faRst, caRst
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Well I believe I've heard english people pronounce idea "idea-ER" a lot. DAW as a word and idea sorta rhyme so maybe it's an english linguistic thing.
 
SloppyJo said:
Well I believe I've heard english people pronounce idea "idea-ER" a lot.
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that's because that's how you say ideaR. i'm now confused as to how other people pronounce it!? who's been messing with our language again :p
 
LOL. This is gona throw the yanks. I've never seen so many English people in one thread before.

Spinal tap's a good reference. They'd pronounce Daw and door the same, if they chose to say daw as a word.
Seinfeld wouldn't.

I'm from Northern Ireland. We don't even pronounce door as 'door'. :p
 
Well to me (Canadian), idea is pronounced "I-dee-yuh", emphasis on the "dee"

The "yuh" isn't exagerrated, if it was that would just sound dumb.
 
DAW ... Same as the aw at the end of claw but with a d at the beginning.
 
Door around here is pronounced with an a on the end doora.
 
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