I used to call grep "Gee, rep".
Pronunciation Guide for Unix
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Re: Pronunciation Guide for Unix
#62I know Linus is pronounced with an "eye" sound but I still call it "lynn-ucks".
"Hello, this is Linus Torvalds, and this is how I pronounce Linux: Linux." In the old days I configured my sound card enough times that this sentence is burned in my auditory cortex.
This is the original audio I was referring to:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linus-linux.ogg
Turns out, as usual, human memory can suffer from bit corruption (but it's not stochastic) :)
Re: Pronunciation Guide for Unix
#63'hash' is better known and one syllable, much prefer saying that over 'octothorpe'.
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Re: Pronunciation Guide for Unix
#64This is so funny, as - after 30+ years in US IT -, while working in a French office, one of my partners keeps asking me to press dièse [djɛz] on the keyboard, and I keep staring at him...
Re: Pronunciation Guide for Unix
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the UK: () are brackets [] are square brackets {} are curly brackets are angle brackets in school I don't think I ever heard the word "parentheses" used to refer to (), or at all for that matter.
I heard it (in UK) referring to { }. In programming circles I've come to expect: () parens, [] brackets, {} braces. Probably easier if we all try to stick to that.
Yes, as someone who lives in the UK I call () parenthesis, [] square brackets and {} curly braces to make it (somewhat) clearer. I pronounce root and route differently for the same reason. But I'm a foreigner so I can take some liberties :)
Re: Pronunciation Guide for Unix
#66My mind was blown when visiting Sweden in 2002 and finding out they pronounce "www" as "vee vee vee" (not just because the letter name double-v makes much more sense than double-u, but because they were smart enough to shorten it in this case).
Since then I've pronounced it in English as "dub dub dub" and found people generally understand it. I hope it catches on.
Re: Pronunciation Guide for Unix
#67I never thought about how the ampersand looks like a duck.
If that page is correct, it’s because Donald Duck is called Anders And in Danish(!).
He is indeed called Anders And but the only name I know in Danish for & is "og-tegn" (and-sign).
We don't call it ampersand because that comes from the English "and per se and".
Re: Pronunciation Guide for Unix
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
I heard it (in UK) referring to { }. In programming circles I've come to expect: () parens, [] brackets, {} braces. Probably easier if we all try to stick to that.
Yes, as someone who lives in the UK I call () parenthesis, [] square brackets and {} curly braces to make it (somewhat) clearer. I pronounce root and route differently for the same reason. But I'm a foreigner so I can take some liberties :)
This also in the US, and as elbow brackets.
Re: Pronunciation Guide for Unix
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's interesting. Wiktionary says that brackets are () in the UK but [] in the US, and that other brackets are called different things to disambiguate them. Using "brackets" for parentheses certainly sounds odd to me even though I never learned "PEMDAS."
In the UK: () are brackets [] are square brackets {} are curly brackets are angle brackets in school I don't think I ever heard the word "parentheses" used to refer to (), or at all for that matter.
That chimes with my experience in the UK.
I personally call ( ) "round brackets" to try and be a bit more explicit about which kind of bracket I mean, but I don't think that's a very common turn of phrase. Similarly I've picked up calling { } "brace brackets" from programming.
Re: Pronunciation Guide for Unix
#70My mind was blown when visiting Sweden in 2002 and finding out they pronounce "www" as "vee vee vee" (not just because the letter name double-v makes much more sense than double-u, but because they were smart enough to shorten it in this case). Since then I've pronounced it in English as "dub dub dub" and found people generally understand it. I hope it catches on.
+1 for the Dub Club