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I always say 'bin' as 'bine' in relation to the folder. This is a hill I will die on. It's short for binary. And a 'bin' is where you put your rubbish, not your hard work.
Do you also pronounce char as in character or as in charcoal?
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Well, as a Swedish speaker I will respectfully disagree with your pronunciation. To my ears the the y is not like the e in me, but I can't think of a good English equivalent. (in fact, the girls name actually sounds like the greek letter "mu" as it's spelled and pronounced in Swedish)
Where/how might I find a good pronunciation reference that would cover this construct/use? English equivalents not necessary; I don't mind picking the appropriate tidbit out of a fragment of speech in a video for example. I could just as easily stare at an IPA pronunciation for a bit too.
The name “My” is not unheard of in danish and we also have a word “my”, for very small measures, with the same pronunciation. It should be close enough the the Swedish pronunciation for your purpose.
Here is an entry in a danish dictionary. Click the yellow speaker for pronunciation:
I used to pronounce "warez" as "juarez" instead of "wares".
I've never heard anyone pronounce /etc as "etsy" or fstab as "F stab"...
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I say "C T L" as in "system C T L". But I also capitalize command names like Ls so I'm probably out on my own here.
> But I also capitalize command names like Ls so I'm probably out on my own here. Only in written correspondence I assume? Macs are the only system that would let you do that in actual use AFAIK (and if you want to break out of that habit I've got an OS to sell you ;) How did you get into this habit though? Are you an old Lisper by chance?
I am not an old Lisper, but I am becoming a young-ish one.
Is etsy really the recommended pronunciation? I say et cetera.
This is one of those surprisingly useful and obvious things that I'm surprised not to have seen before. Knowledge of (including pronunciation) jargon is a classic gatekeeper In my experience, I'm in the minority in pronouncing sudo as soodoo, the majority seem to say pseudo. OTOH I've never heard anyone say fsck as anything other than f-suck From personal experience at Microsoft the backslash was frequently pronounce…
> pseudo I'm originally Italian and my English is now quite good. A very, very common mistake among most "mediterranean" and "romance languages" (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, Romanian) people when speaking English is to pronounce ps as in "pissed" without the "i", instead of just the "s" (the "p" is silent), which is the correct way to pronounce it in English. Another very common mistake in my language group…
I'm genuinely lost reading your comment as neither the p nor the i are silent in pissed (/pɪst/). The only weird part is the "ed" pronounced "t" but that's fairly common in English.
I also don't get the part about "ps" in romance languages. There is no special pronunciation rule regarding this group of letters in French. Are you sure it's not specific to Italian?
Edit: I think I now realized you might be talking about the pronunciation of words like pseudo and psyched where the p would indeed be pronunced where it French (and I guess in the same way in Italian).