"Bewag" is a German acronym for "Berliner Elektrizitäts-Werke AG", a former electricity company in Berlin. Its pronunciation is /bəˈvaːk/. The first vowel is a schwa /ə/, followed by a voiced bilabial fricative /v/ and a long open-mid back unrounded vowel /aː/. The final consonant cluster is a voiceless velar plosive /k/. The spelling of "Bewag" adheres to the principles of traditional German spelling rules where the sound /v/ is represented by the letters "w" and /aː/ is represented by the letter "a" followed by a double consonant.