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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.
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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.
In the 80's I worked with a guy who had a theory that most people who grew up with SQL in the early days pronounce it "sequel", and the younger generation was more used to saying it as the letters; S-Q-L. At $PREVIOUSJOB I worked with a guy from Boston who pronounced "query" as "quarry". But he had a lot of bizarre pronunciations, so we just let it go. And not just because Boston, either.
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> I recall French colleagues pronouncing a lot of stuff that commonly starts with ch- (chroot, chmod, chown etc) with a sh- sound. Some other annoying pronunciations I sometimes hear are "yoom" and "pooty" for Yum and Putty. Yet for some reason they get GRUB right, I haven't figured out why. English isn't a phonetically consistent language (ex, "u" sounds different in "put" and "dug") so I guess it can be confusing t…
> I guess it can be confusing It it confusing, yes. You can understand it through tough thorough thought though.
I 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.
> - Hyphen: minus (sign), dash, dak , option, flag, negative (sign), worm, bithorpe Instead of dak , I've heard this and tend to use it as tac instead, which apparently originates from flag separators in the Navy [0], so there is some logic behind it. [0]: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/191807/pronuncia...
! Exclamation point exclamation (mark), (ex)clam, excl, wow, hey, boing, bang, shout, yell, shriek, pling, factorial, ball-bat, smash, cuss, store, not (UNIX) (C), dammit (UNIX) Deeply sadened there is not entry for this with "splosh dot", as that and "bang" are the ones everybody I've worked with used over past 3 decades, though mindful that may well be a local cultural thang from the UK. As for ~ even sadder there…
I have added "swan hyphen" to the page now.