…such as “I wonder how the letter W came about?”.  OK, this is pretty much just ripped off from Althouse, but I thought it was interesting.  So as small thanks, go read her blog too.

The History of “W” According to Wikipedia

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Interesting tidbit from the Wikipedia history: The initialism “www” for the World Wide Web thus, perhaps ironically, has three times as many syllables as the full name.”  Huh.  WWW = nine syllables and World Wide Web = three syllables.  Conclusion: I am easily amused.