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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
by 8ig8 10y ago
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.
- toabi 10y agohttp://english.stackexchange.com/questions/48735/how-do-you-pronounce-curl-the-computer-utility http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/48735/how-do-you-...
- mrow84 10y agoThat 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].
- kubbity 10y agoI did also pronounced [kurl]. Didn't notice see-URL, because of a different pronunciation on "c". :)
- NTripleOne 10y agoYou think that's traumatic? See you are ell.
- gregmac 10y agoWait, 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"?
- CydeWeys 10y agoThe nice thing about SQL and URL is that they're so widely used in our profession that regardless of how you say them you will be understood easily. Some people say "ess que ell" and others say "sequel" and that's fine; everyone understands everyone. It's unconventional pronunciations of less common initialisms that cause problems.
- UweSchmidt 10y agoMay I lament at this point that we non native speakers often miss out on the pun entirely and read brand-/projectnames as abstract fantasy words. SQL -> "sequel", how could we know?
- psj 10y ago"Sequel", or "skewl" when I'm in a hurry. Who has time to say "ess que ell"?
- divbyzer0 10y agoOn one occasion I overheard SQL pronounced as squeal. Stunned into silence.
- Daviey 10y ago
- Cyph0n 10y agoHaha that's just too much... sorry.
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- AnkhMorporkian 10y agoThat 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.
- forgotpwtomain 10y agoI always though it was abbreviated of super-do - much like the other unixisms (ls, cd etc.)
- mpnordland 10y ago> I'm still not sure if it's properly pronounced 'pseudo' or 'sue-do Those are both pronounced the same way.
- an_account 10y agoThe first one is sue-doe, the second is sue-do
- mathgeek 10y ago> Those are both pronounced the same way. The prior is pronounced /ˈso͞odō/ The latter is pronounced /so͞odu/
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- tetraodonpuffer 10y agoin the days of yore when I learned to program in basic before learning English I pronounced goto with the second o rhyming with the first one, it embarassignly also took some time after learning English to figure out that goto was "go to" as my brain had made the programming association and wasn't treating it as a language construct at all... Speaking about sudo, learned that before living in an English speaking country, so everybody pronounced rhyming with su-go (say) not su-do and I still pronounce it that way (which I guess it's wrong!) ah, the joys of learning English as a written language first, even now after living in North America for nearly 20 years occasionally I find words I completely mispronounce due to having learned them from books
- nowprovision 10y agoHa me too, you are not alone. Then again I used the word exotic for esoteric for many years, I wondered why people would always deny the solution was exotic in a giggly way as i loud ranted everything was too damn exotic. etiquette was another source of laughter, at 33 i finally figured out how to say it correctly. shit happens!
- victorr 10y agoI've made this mistake with LaTeX. I was so embarrassed when someone told me "Its pronounced lah-tekh".
- AstroJetson 10y agoAnother one is Tuple (like in a data base) Too pool -or- Tup ulll -or- Tup lee So many choice from just five letters....
- Crespyl 10y agoI'd always heard "Two Pull"s as the one true way, not to be confused with "Triple"s. "Tup Lee" just seems silly.
- AstroJetson 10y agoNot to pick on the place that invented "Sweet Tea" and BBQ, but in the south, ya'll just need to drag out those vowels....
- lucideer 10y agoTuple 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 become standard everywhere due to the tech industry) so I guess other words could go the same way.
- perlgeek 10y agoSpeaking of potentially ambiguous pronunciations, I recently learned that Dr. Richard Hipp, the creator of SQLite, pronounce it Es Que Ell-ite or Sequel-ite, the -ite postfix being inspired by minerals/rocks (like stalagmite). Source: https://changelog.com/201/ https://changelog.com/201/
- ythl 10y agoIt'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.
- adzm 10y agoI 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!
- ThatGeoGuy 10y agoI'm not sure how you got eye-terator, but I can sort of see where 'car' came from. I guess I'm lucky here, because I learned to always say: 'char' : as in charcoal 'car' : pronounced like a car, used as (car (cons 'a 'b)) 'cdr' : supposed to be 'could-er', but I flip between cee-derr and could-er 'cadaddr' : prounounced 'why' I kid a little, but it's funny to hear these things, especially when it's from somebody from a foreign country. It wasn't until grad school that I realized there's so many different ways to pronounce keywords.
- otoburb 10y agoI 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'.
- kevinastone 10y agoIsn't it care-actor? I can't say car-actor without hearing a fake British accent.
- Sean1708 10y agoIt's more like cah-actor, I'd say.
- munificent 10y ago