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On reading “WICG”

Crissov
2016-04-18

I’ve wondered for a while now, what reading ‘WICG’ or ‘wicg’ reminds me of. I thought it was ‘WYSIWYG’ or one of its derivations, but I’ve now realized that it’s German ‘witzig’, which means funny. (Spelled letter by letter, it would be /ve.i.tse.ge/, though.)