Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

Post by cbm-vic-20 » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 4:08 PM UTC

danaliv wrote: post #31

pacaro wrote: post #2

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…

I was asked the correct pronunciation of /etc in an interview once. Diabolical, if you ask me.

Post by kps » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 4:12 PM UTC

dingaling wrote: post #153

hodgesrm wrote: post #8

MySQL pronunciation can be "My S Q L" or "My Sequel." I think most people in the community probably use the latter, but truthfully most of us don't really care. The "S Q L" vs. "Sequel" split has existed almost as long as SQL itself. The original name for the language was "SEQUEL." [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL#History

I once received a document from an offshore DBA who had written 'seagull' for every instance of 'SQL' because that's what he thought was being said on conference calls. Personally I cut it down the middle and go with 'squill' but then I always said 'scizzy' instead of 'scuzzy' for SCSI.

Post by majewsky » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 4:16 PM UTC

ajdude wrote: post #205

I’m 31 years old and have been using Linux most of my life. A few of my friends and people at work do too, but this is the first time I’ve heard /etc pronounced as etsy. It’s always been “etcetera” for me. This led me to look up the history of that directory: “ But people encountered a situation to keep some files which can be a config file or a data file or a socket file or some other files. So they implemented a fo…

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 4:34 PM UTC

devenblake wrote: post #191

Daneel_ wrote: post #9

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I was a su-dough person until I realise that sudo stands for 'super user do' or 'su do', so I switched to soodoo - it makes a lot more sense that way. f-suck is a new one for me though. I would say F S C K to someone else, but I call it fusk in my head.

In my head I pronounce fsck "fuck" because that's normally what I say when I realize I have to use it. Around people? fs check or filesystem check.

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 4:37 PM UTC

nisse72 wrote: post #91

bch wrote: post #77

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What’s better is that “My” has nothing to do with possession, and it’s pronounced “Me”: it’s Widenius’ daughters name[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius

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)