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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]."
by mrow84 10y ago
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].
- 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.
- _ZeD_ 10y agosquirrel :)
- 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