How do you say …?

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Out of curiosity, which was brought on by the rather contentious abbreviations for the 11th expansion, how many of you actually read/say the abbreviation, versus just translating it automatically?

I.e., if you see SL do you say the letters S L out loud or do you say Shadowland?

Mostly curious from a linguistic perspective.

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Depends on context. Some acronyms overlap, but I would rather call it by name.

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There are no contentious abbreviations. Just one person being stupid repeatedly on the forums.

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Tee-Wee-Wee. Because we Dutch don’t say ‘double you’ but … Weeh. XD

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I’ll call it the “WarWii”.

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I say S L and probably just War for TWW. BfA was B F A, or if I have to put in a lot of effort for those of us who aren’t acronym nerds and don’t play WoW I just say the name of the expansion.

Also buff Blood Elf DKs

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It depends on if you enjoyed an expansion. If you had not liked it I would rather say the abbreviated title than let the full name past my lips again.

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This is how I refer to all them in my head or when I’m talking to my husband/kid:

Vanilla - og wow (I say “wow” not the acronym)
TBC - The Burning Crusade
Wrath - Wrath
Cata - Cata
MoP - MoP (I say the acronym not “mop”.)
WoD - Warlords
Legeion - Legion
BfA - BfA
SL - Shadowlands
DF - Dragonflight
TWW - The War Within

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You’d probably drop “the” when saying it, a bit like TBC.
So just War within as TWW.

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“dubbya dubbya”

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In my day, we called it “pre-BC”

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I say the following: Vanilla, TBC, Wrath, Cata, MOP, WOD, Legion, BFA, Shadowlands, and Dragonflight.

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I drop the the and read it War Within.

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I say
Burning Crusade
Wrath
Cataclysm
Mop
Warlords
Legion
Dragonflight

I have never, in my life, uttered the words “Battle for Azeroth” or “Shadowlands”, or any kind of abbreviated form of those titles.

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WW is Wind Walker tho so it has to be TWW imo

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SL will always be Shadow Labyrinth in my book.

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For some i will say the letters if they work. For example if I see MoP iʻll say “mop” but others like WotLK iʻll say “wrath”

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I am a personal fan of T-dubs

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It varies. I’m definitely more inclined to say the actual name of an expansion rather than an abbreviation i think. Though some can be shortened for speech easier than others: Wrath, Mists. Whereas TBC, I’ll often say “TBC”, or i guess just “BC”. Same with BFA actually. Just depends on the words in the title and how well they actually identify the thing.

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That’s too close to how people shorten Buffalo Wild Wings for me.

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