I had a lot of trouble with "tuple": is it "too-pul", "tyu-pul" (like pupil) or "tupple" (like supple). I've heard it pronounced all ways by now
two-ple, tri-ple, quadru-ple
Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
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Re: Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
#92I feel like hardly anyone in Germany knows how to pronounce Azure (myself included for the longest time). There are no other common words like it, and what feels like the most obvious pronunciation is far from the correct one.
Here in Australia it's typical to say Ah-zure (Ah as in Aha) where as Americans typically say Ay-zure (Ay as in the name Jay). There are many differences in pronunciation between English from various countries. E.g. in Australia we say Mo-bile were "bile" rhymes with "vile" whereas Americans typically pronounce it as Mo-bol. There are lots of others.
>Here in Australia it's typical to say Ah-zure (Ah as in Aha) where as Americans typically say Ay-zure (Ay as in the name Jay).
There are dozens of dialects/pronunciation styles in the US. What you may have heard from some US folks isn't what you'll hear from others.
As an American who lives in the US, I have never heard anyone say 'Ay-zure', WRT to either the color or the "someone else's server' offering from Microsoft.
As for Mobile, there are multiple pronunciations in various places around the US. Anything from 'mo-b-aye-l' (as you Aussies say) to 'mob-ill' (as in mafia) to 'Moe-bill' (as in one of the Three Stooges) to 'Mo-beel'.
Then again, I live on the east coast and those west coast weirdos sure do talk funny.
Edit: Clarified "pronunciation" of Mobile (with long 'o' and 'i' and silent 'e').
Re: Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
#93The 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…
It's because the animal is called a gnu and a lot of us heard of the animal way before we ever heard of GNU. Sometimes, part of me thinks GNU is pronounced like that because someone wanted to be an asshole.
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#94The Primeagen has permanently ruined my pronunciation of SQL (squeal).
Also chat-jipity
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#95> 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.
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#96I 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.
Re: Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
#97The 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…
It's because the animal is called a gnu and a lot of us heard of the animal way before we ever heard of GNU. Sometimes, part of me thinks GNU is pronounced like that because someone wanted to be an asshole.
That's why I (despite being an English speaker) have always pronounced it "g-new," not caring what was correct. Pronouncing it like the animal seems designed to cause unnecessary confusion. Reminds me of the MST3K skit where Mike told the bots he was a big fan of Noh Japanese theater.
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#98I 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.
It is spelled "sys-op".
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#99I feel like hardly anyone in Germany knows how to pronounce Azure (myself included for the longest time). There are no other common words like it, and what feels like the most obvious pronunciation is far from the correct one.
Here in Australia it's typical to say Ah-zure (Ah as in Aha) where as Americans typically say Ay-zure (Ay as in the name Jay). There are many differences in pronunciation between English from various countries. E.g. in Australia we say Mo-bile were "bile" rhymes with "vile" whereas Americans typically pronounce it as Mo-bol. There are lots of others.
It gets worse in the US. There's Mobil (the oil company - pronounced MO-bƏl), mobile (as it capable of movement - pronounced either MOE-bile or MO-bƏl) or Mobile (a city in the state of Alabama - pronounced (AFAIK) mo-BEEL).
You can mispronounce all sorts of things in the US and no one will blink an eye, but you mispronounce a town name, prepare to be dogpiled. Especially if you're in Palestine, Texas (Pal-es-teen NOT Pal-es-tine).
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#100I have never heard anyone say "regex" with an /eɪ/ sound like "RAY". It's /ɛ/ like in "meh", or indeed the first syllable in "regular". (though "regex" has a "soft g" /dʒ/, not a "hard g" /g/ like in "regular").
I pronounce it as a portmanteau of regular and expression, and will continue to do so despite any corrections ;)