"Euler" instead of "Oiler"
and von Mises is von Meeseez which I can't manage to learn and still call it von my sis.
Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
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#12azure is tough for me.
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#13For a very long time I thought "cache" was pronounced with a voiced e, "cach-ay", probably cause I thought of "cachet".
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#14Regex should be "reg-ex" rather than any of the listed pronunciations since it's just short for regular expression
Regex is indeed reg-ex. Anyone who says "red-jex" is dead to me
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#15Idempotent anyone? Eye-dempotent or id-empotent?
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#16Took me years to realize Linux wasn't lie-nix. Some of my friends had been calling it that and it seems we were a bubble of wrong. There's also the lee-noox camp but that's just weird. Also sea hash turned out to be sea sharp.
Took me several years to unlearn 'Lie-nix'!
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#17The worst I heard was calling PHP “pup”. Yes that’s a u.
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#18> Linus (Torvalds)
technically "LEE-nuhs" in those European languages while "LYE-nihs" in English, but he actually doesn't care what you say
It's hard not to forgive people to pronounce your name wrong, when they've never met you or anyone that pronounces it correctly. They've only read it on the screen and they still say your name as best they can.
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#19I had a lot of trouble with "tuple": is it "too-pul", "tyu-pul" (like pupil) or "tupple" (like supple). I've heard it pronounced all ways by now
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#20I don't know, but it will always be "vyte".
Because vite means fast in French, which is ironic because French is a well-documented waste of time.