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it confuses me that he lists brackets as [] but not for (). () are brackets [] are square brackets and {} are curly brackets. certainly if you're from the UK and in maths class grew up being told about: BODMAS - Brackets, Orders Division, Multiplication, Addition Subtraction I believe PEMDAS is more common in the USA
I remember it as “Bless My Dear Aunt Sally”.
I’ve always called \ a ‘whack,’ but not sure it was rooted in Unix.
My 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.
I do the same. It has always annoyed me that we have a 3 syllable name for the letter W.
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Only godless savages and the sort of people who talk at the theatre pronounce it with a soft G.
Ah yes, the Giraffics Interchange Format. If the hard G is sinful, I will turn to face Jod and walk backwards into hell (with apologies to @dril)
Gif. It's pronounced Gif, not Gif.
My favorite troll prank is when people say ‘vi’, I correct them and say it’s pronounced ’six’. I’ve been milking that one for years. Perhaps I’m a Roman numerologist at heart.
"vi is pronounced six, it rhymes with emacs" where you pronounce it "emix".
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I once worked with someone who pronounced SQL files as "squalls". That was the weirdest and most creative pronunciation I've heard.
At one job I had at all agreed that 'Sequel' was dumb and 'Squirrel' would have been better.