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Thank you. I had no idea that PNG was supposed to be pronounced "Ping" (I always say Pee Enn Gee)
QT should be pronounced "cute", but I say "queue-tee". Linux is pronounced with a short i, but most americans say "lie-nux". As a german I say "Lee-nux". Xing is allegedly pronounced "crossing", but I say "ksing".
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Thank you. I had no idea that PNG was supposed to be pronounced "Ping" (I always say Pee Enn Gee)
QT should be pronounced "cute", but I say "queue-tee". Linux is pronounced with a short i, but most americans say "lie-nux". As a german I say "Lee-nux". Xing is allegedly pronounced "crossing", but I say "ksing".
Doesn't the G stand for Graphics? That has a hard G, so I pronounce GIF with one too.
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Most linguists would agree that it is logically contradictory to state that the majority of speakers pronounce a word incorrectly, because the correct pronunciation is determined by observing how people actually say a word, and not how one very special person thinks other people should pronounce it.
Isn't prescriptivism vs. descriptivism actually a very old divide among linguists?
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I mean, I can only speak from personal experience, but I always call gif, jif, and it has nothing to do with whether its correct pronunciation or not. I just read it like that and could care less about the facts
> could care less https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
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QT should be pronounced "cute", but I say "queue-tee". Linux is pronounced with a short i, but most americans say "lie-nux". As a german I say "Lee-nux". Xing is allegedly pronounced "crossing", but I say "ksing".
Really? I have always though it is a mashup of "Linus Torvalds Unix Clone" so always used the long 'i' the same as his name.