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That's not how language evolves. I'm sure you don't pronounce every French word that was assimilated into English with a French accent / pronunciation.
by praihan 5y ago
That's not how language evolves. I'm sure you don't pronounce every French word that was assimilated into English with a French accent / pronunciation.
- kyruzic 5y agoIts a name.
- tremon 5y agoI'm pretty sure that Matthaios, Markos, Loukas and Ioannes would not recognize their own names in the present-day English pronunciations (well, Mark and Luke might, but John would certainly not).
- yawn 5y agoCome to St. Louis where everyone mispronounces the French street names. Doug Crockford coined JSON as "Jason", but nearly every developer I've ever run into says "jaysawn", so that's how I say it too.
- School-Cotton 5y agoOr the name of St. Louis itself, for that matter.
- frosted-flakes 5y agoPNG was supposed to be "ping", but I've only ever heard people spell it out.
- Zandikar 5y agoAnd? That's only relevant if it's their own name, or potentially if something falls under the purview of the Académie Française, and even then, that requires you to care what the Academy thinks. There is more than one canonical way to pronounce things, even names. For example, what's the correct way to pronounce Arkansas? The real issue here is people trying to assert there is only one correct way to pronounce it.
- School-Cotton 5y agoVirtually all names are pronounced differently from how they originally were.
- greggman3 5y agoSo are the names of countries but people rarely pronounce them as they are in their country of origin.