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wrrrr.
n.  the sound of typing on a keyboard.

<*click* *wrrrr* *tnk tnk tnk*.  i’m a crazy man at the keyboard.  sure a typewriter would make me seem cooler, but i write all my stories in emails, and then send them to myself, at a different email address.  —Paul Jarvis, “Pseudofamous.”>

wrtng.
n.  writing, written in Roger Bacon’s all-consonant secret code (devised in 1250), as discussed in The Voynich Manuscript by Gerry Kennedy.


wsst.
n.  the sound of a talking vacuum cleaner’s electrical cord flying through the air in search of an outlet, as in the comic book Vacuum Horror by Aaron K.


wv.
n.  the title of a visual poem by Mike Cannell.


Www.
n.  the name of a character with glowing yellow eyes in the novel The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury.


www.
n.  the sound of the letter w.



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