"H-a-p-p-y" or "H-a-double p-y?" I think it's a generational thing.

[raccoon]

Boomer here, and I never spell with "double-p" or whatever.

My mother did, though. Your experience?

(Younger DU'ers might think I'm talking about Chaucerian English )

[Hoyt]

1. My mom did too. Me never, unless trying to sound silly.

[Art_from_Ark]

2. Two songs I learned as a kid

R-A-G-G-M-O-P-P, ragmop!

M-A-S-S-A-C-H-U-S-E-double T-S

So I guess I was on the cusp

[Tanuki]

4. Do you remember "K E double L, O double Good...?

[raccoon]

6. I remember the ad well, but I never heard anyone younger than the WWII generation

"double L" or whatever in RL.

[panader0]

3. B double E double R UN

[Tanuki]

5. It is definitely archaic in the U.S. but I wonder if it is still used in some

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of the other English-speaking countries. I volunteer teaching English as a second language, and I sometimes encounter a student, not so old, who has been taught by a previous teacher to say "double (whatever)" instead of saying the letter twice.

[raccoon]

7. Interesting...wonder where the previous teacher(s) were from. nt

[Kali]

8. yep

my German friend is a couple years younger than me and she uses it when spelling her name out loud in various situations (border crossings, car rentals etc) - she has two sets of double letters in her last name, so she says "letter letter double-letter letter letter letter letter double-letter"

[Arugula Latte]

9. Heh heh. You said peepee.

[OrwellwasRight]

10. I always give my zip code as Two- triple zero-nine.

Because if I try to say zero-zero-zero, people go "wait, how many zeroes?"

Not sure if that counts.