I always say 'bin' as 'bine' in relation to the folder. This is a hill I will die on. It's short for binary. And a 'bin' is where you put your rubbish, not your hard work.
Except if it's a parts bin maybe. ;)
Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
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Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
#152I work with someone that says "wha" for WAR file instead of war (What is it good for!). Drives me nuts.
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#153MySQL pronunciation can be "My S Q L" or "My Sequel." I think most people in the community probably use the latter, but truthfully most of us don't really care. The "S Q L" vs. "Sequel" split has existed almost as long as SQL itself. The original name for the language was "SEQUEL." [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL#History
I once received a document from an offshore DBA who had written 'seagull' for every instance of 'SQL' because that's what he thought was being said on conference calls.
Personally I cut it down the middle and go with 'squill' but then I always said 'scizzy' instead of 'scuzzy' for SCSI.
Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
#154I've never heard anyone pronounce /etc as "etsy" or fstab as "F stab"...
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
What’s better is that “My” has nothing to do with possession, and it’s pronounced “Me”: it’s Widenius’ daughters name[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius
Well, as a Swedish speaker I will respectfully disagree with your pronunciation. To my ears the the y is not like the e in me, but I can't think of a good English equivalent. (in fact, the girls name actually sounds like the greek letter "mu" as it's spelled and pronounced in Swedish)
The database can also be pronounced MyS-QL ("mys-kul").
It's not right of course.
Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just want to point out that pronouncing etc as etsy isn't universal by any means - in fact I suspect it's a very American pronunciation. If you pronounced it 'etsy' in a sentence here in the UK, people wouldn't understand what you're talking about.
Agree. Most English people at least would be nonplussed if you said "etsy etsy" rather than "etcetra etcetra" to indicate something that goes on and on.
Most UK English speakers would be confused if you used 'nonplussed' to mean confused...
Human languages are hugely inefficient!
Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
Since the /etc pronunciation was first in the list, I initially thought this might be some joke list of crazy pronunciations until I saw the rest. Do people really say "etsy" when referring to /etc? I've never ever heard anyone say this. Usually I hear the spelled out E-T-C and occasionally "et cetera" but never "etsy"
Are you British? I (American) have been pronouncing it "etsy" for over 20 years. When I hear something different it's usually from someone who is new to unix and just hasn't learned all the jargon yet.
Haha, I've been using Unix since the mid-90s on and off.
Weirdly I've always assumed the opposite of you, "etsy" being someone new (and very weird) and "et cetera" being correct.
Yes, British.
I can't accept the US date format as sane and I'm not sure about this etsy thing either. :P
Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
#158I've never heard anyone pronounce /etc as "etsy" or fstab as "F stab"...
On the other hand, I've pronounced /etc as "etsy" ("slash etsy", usually) for, I dunno, 25 years or more.
NFI where I first heard it pronounced like that, though.
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#159Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
#160I've never heard anyone pronounce /etc as "etsy" or fstab as "F stab"...
Neither had I, until yesterday. Weird timing for this post to pop up.
I have always called it either 'slash eee-tee-cee' or 'slash etcetera' however yesterday I was watching a video of Andreas working on SerenityOS and he was implementing /etc/shadow and referred to it as 'et-see' which made me think I've never heard it pronounced like that before (or if I have I have long forgotten it).
I kinda like it though.