Saying 'World Wide Web' takes fewer syllables
than saying its abbreviation.
How?

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'W-W-W' has 9 syllables (double-you = 3, times 3). 'World Wide Web' has 3. — One of the few acronyms that’s clunkier than the phrase it replaces. The internet’s slowest-to-say prefix.

Saying 'World Wide Web' takes fewer syllables than saying its abbreviation. How?