No Whois. I said that wrong for a long time. It's WhoIs. Two words.
Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
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Re: Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
#42Are there people actually out there saying "S-Q-L-ite"?
SQ-Lite
Re: Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
#43Are there people actually out there saying "S-Q-L-ite"?
or Postgre-S-Q-L instead of Postgres-Q-L
Re: Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
#44Took 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.
> Also sea hash turned out to be sea sharp.
This irked me when I learned it as I'm into both tech and music, but it never once occurred to me to apply the music convention to a tech name.
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#45Re: Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
#46Back in the BBS days I used to pronounce "warez" like "juarez", growing up in a spanish speaking community, and not knowing it was short for "softwares".
Re: Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
#47"Ecks-eff-see-ee" (Xfce), not "x-face" (sadly, got this myth debunked just now lol)
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#48For the longest time I would pronounce $FOO as "string foo" in my head and occasionally out loud, because that's how my dad said it when talking about BASIC code in the 70s & 80s.
Then I heard a younger co-worker do it while we were talking about sh code and felt bad for unintentionally infecting him with a nonsense habit.
Re: Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
#49This is why I prefer writing over speaking when discussing programming-related stuff.
Re: Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
#50The Primeagen has permanently ruined my pronunciation of SQL (squeal).