I've always pronounced 'pypi' as pie-pie and assumed it's a homonym pun.
Same, but maybe pie-pee-eye is better to distinguish is from pypy?
Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
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#112> GIF like "gif", of course I also loved they pointed out pronouncing `regex` as "rejects" was wrong.
I take issue with the options of "RAY-ghex" and "RAY-jeks." In my experience you can say either "REH-ghex" or "REH-jeks."
Reg like regular, from whence it comes. Regular Expression.
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#113> GIF like "gif", of course I also loved they pointed out pronouncing `regex` as "rejects" was wrong.
Yeah, thanks for not actually settling a damn thing with that description. The guy who created it says it with a soft G, so that's a reasonable authority to me. Anyone else, it's just their opinion.
Thank you! Peanut butter for the win.
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#114The article mentions GNU, and it took me a long time until I found out that English speakers pronounce it "noo", "new" or similar. My native language routinely has four consonants in a row, sometimes more, and gn is a perfectly common consonant sequence so it never occurred to me that the GNU project could be pronounced as anything but gnu. Turns out English speakers intuitively drop the initial g, or often have to i…
I pronounce it Gee En You, because Guh Knew sounds absolutely ridiculous.
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#116> 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.
Linus did make an audio clip back in 1994 saying ‘Hello! This is Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce Linux as “Linux”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Linus-linux.ogg
Interesting he says "Lih nux" and not "Lee nux"
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#117I still haven't managed to break myself of the habit, from the 80s, of referring the operator of a BBS as if they were someone's female sibling: sis-op.
sadly this raises the possibility of the bro-op
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#118Another one I learned recently: The godot engine is not go-dot, it's guh-dow.
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#119It seems Americans always screw up German names, like Gödel, Schrödinger. So are Dutch names like Dijkstra, Huygens. I don't think there are sounds like 'ö', 'ij', or 'ui' in English. note: 'uy' is the 16th century spelling of current 'ui'.
I only recently learned we're all pronouncing Einstein wrong
That depends on your frame of reference
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#120Yesterday I found out JWT is pronounced "jot"
jawwwt!