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Is it really pronounced "ee-dee"? Here I've been pronouncing it all the time like it was some zany protagonist in a 90's cartoon show!
by rav 5y ago
Is it really pronounced "ee-dee"? Here I've been pronouncing it all the time like it was some zany protagonist in a 90's cartoon show!
- peterburkimsher 5y agoYes, Brian Kernighan said it's pronounced "ee-dee": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfOnGZUZDk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfOnGZUZDk
- seanhunter 5y ago...and that never made any sense to me. Because you don't pronounce "sed" as "ess-ee-dee". So if you pronounce "sed" as "said", you must surely pronounce "ed" as "ed".
- kps 5y agoThe reason is that it's a descendant of QED — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QED_(text_editor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QED_(text_editor)
- em-bee 5y agothere is also that talking horse which even predates the editor