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You think that's traumatic? See you are ell.
Wait, is that wrong? I've only ever met a single person that pronounced URL like "Earl". Everyone else says the letters, and thus, you get "see you are ell". I tend to go back and forth with cURL, sometimes calling it "kurl". Same problem with SQL. Is it "ess que ell" or "sequel"?
Stunned into silence.
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I still say 'car' in my head. Hardest one for me was 'it-erator' instead of 'eye-terator'. I still lapse and use the latter on accident out of habit!
I still say 'car' out loud and in my head because the "char" type is short for "character", and the first syllable of the full word is pronounced 'car', not 'char'.
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That was too traumatic to contemplate, so I referred to the FAQ and found relief in section 1.1: "We pronounce curl and cURL with an initial k sound: [kurl]." They do, however, note that the "fact it can also be pronounced 'see URL' also helped" [to choose the name].
That reminds me that I had been using sudo for close to 15 years before I realized that it was a combination of 'su' and 'do.' I'm still not sure if it's properly pronounced 'pseudo' or 'sue-doo', but it really blew my mind once I figured out the name. Edit: Changed 'sue-do' to 'sue-doo' to make it less ambiguous.
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You think that's traumatic? See you are ell.
Wait, is that wrong? I've only ever met a single person that pronounced URL like "Earl". Everyone else says the letters, and thus, you get "see you are ell". I tend to go back and forth with cURL, sometimes calling it "kurl". Same problem with SQL. Is it "ess que ell" or "sequel"?
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Another one is Tuple (like in a data base) Too pool -or- Tup ulll -or- Tup lee So many choice from just five letters....
Tuple is a mathematical term predating computers, and the "-tuple" suffix is older again, so pronunciation shouldn't be as ambiguous as the other, newly invented terms. (It's historically rhymed with couple) On the other hand, a lot of Latin-originating words have had their pronunciations changed in US English, the canonical example being data (from UK English "da-ta" to US English "day-ta", which has now begun to be…
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I still say 'car' out loud and in my head because the "char" type is short for "character", and the first syllable of the full word is pronounced 'car', not 'char'.
Isn't it care-actor? I can't say car-actor without hearing a fake British accent.
I just realized after all these years, I think I've been saying the name wrong. In my head, I say "curl" as in curly hair. It's really "see-url"!? I think it's too late for my brain to correct that.
It's like people who think after many years of programming that "char" is actually pronounced "care". Nope. In real life people just read things. "char" the stick in the fire all day long.
But I also pronounce "enum" like "ee num", not "ee noom", so there is apparently no overarching theme.
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That reminds me that I had been using sudo for close to 15 years before I realized that it was a combination of 'su' and 'do.' I'm still not sure if it's properly pronounced 'pseudo' or 'sue-doo', but it really blew my mind once I figured out the name. Edit: Changed 'sue-do' to 'sue-doo' to make it less ambiguous.
I know it's not actually true, but I choose to believe that "su" stands for superuser and "sudo" is a witty pun which means both "superuser do" and "pseudo" because you're pretending to be a superuser.