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> I recall French colleagues pronouncing a lot of stuff that commonly starts with ch- (chroot, chmod, chown etc) with a sh- sound. Some other annoying pronunci
by rahen 4y ago
> I recall French colleagues pronouncing a lot of stuff that commonly starts with ch- (chroot, chmod, chown etc) with a sh- sound.
Some other annoying pronunciations I sometimes hear are "yoom" and "pooty" for Yum and Putty. Yet for some reason they get GRUB right, I haven't figured out why.
English isn't a phonetically consistent language (ex, "u" sounds different in "put" and "dug") so I guess it can be confusing to some when needing to pronounce a new product name.
- pdpi 4y ago> I guess it can be confusing It it confusing, yes. You can understand it through tough thorough thought though.
- VTimofeenko 4y agoObligatory "If English was phonetically consistent": https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A8zWWp0akUU https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A8zWWp0akUU
- drewzero1 4y agoWhen I'm thinking "change ownership" I pronounce it ch-oh-n with a long O, but when I just read it in context I can't help but pronounce it like "clown". Lately I've been listening to Linux-related podcasts and it always takes me a couple of seconds to figure out what they're talking about when they say stuff like "slash et-see". (Which is fantastic, because it recalls "&c", et+c.)