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>pronounced "paw" What? Call it "paw" then. No one is gonna see "pa" and think it's pronounced "paw", and no one is gonna hear you say "paw" and think the invo

>pronounced "paw" What? Call it "paw" then. No one is gonna see "pa" and think it's pronounced "paw", and no one is gonna hear you say "paw" and think the invocation is "pa" Why the intentional confusion?

aconbere 4y ago
I would pronounce pa as “paw”, like papa. Would you say it like the a in “apple”?
- nulbyte 4y ago
  If papa is a stand-in for father, I'd pronounce it with a long a, as in father. If papa is a stand-in for grandfather, I'd pronounce the first a as in apple, and the second as in paw. But of also spell it papaw. Seeing 'pa' in its own, I'd never think it was pronounced like paw, unless I was reading something written in Hungarian.
  - appletrotter 4y ago
    I pronounce 'pa' like 'paw.' Short for papa I guess. Always have, always will.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y ago
  None of the above. No one pronounces "aw" like the a in Apple. And most people do dinstinguish between "a" and "aw" by pronouncing the latter more like the a in "awe".
  - FPGAhacker 4y ago
    Merriam-Webster at least gives one of two possible pronunciations for “pa” as identical to “paw.” https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pa https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pa Relevant for the US.
  - aconbere 4y ago
    Right I’m just confused how you would pronounce it. Because I would almost certainly default to saying pa like “awe”.
    - yreg 4y ago
      ESL speaker here, "pa" like in "parking"
    - I_complete_me 4y ago
      There is a favourite old joke of mine that depends heavily on this pronunciation: A dog limps into a bar. The barman looks at him and say "What can I do you for?" and the dog replies "I'm a looking for the man that shot my pa".
    - deathanatos 4y ago
      "pa" would be pronounced between these two, depending on speaker: /pɑː/ — if I had to use "normal person's IPA", "pah" would be my attempt. This, to me, is the more common pronunciation. Should rhyme with "bra" … assuming you pronounce that like I do. /pɔː/ — like "paw" or "awe". This is a region-specific dialect, to me. This appears to be the one you're familiar with. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English for a chart.
- pimlottc 4y ago
  To me (American Midwest), “papa” (father) and “pawpaw” (a type of fruit) are not pronounced the same way. “Papa” is more like “pahpah”.
mb7733 4y ago
> No one is gonna see "pa" and think it's pronounced "paw", and no one is gonna hear you say "paw" and think the invocation is "pa" Well consider me a counter example.
drexlspivey 4y ago
Wait till you hear how age is pronounced
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y ago
  Awgee?
seanw444 4y ago
Or, who really cares how people pronounce it? It's very unlikely for there to be many scenarios where someone was trying to find this, but couldn't, just because they heard someone say it wrong. Most people will find it through textual means. I don't get the obsession with projects specifying the pronunciation in the README. If anything it just means you failed at naming your project.
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jrm4 4y ago
You're not in the American South, are you? These are not far from one another here.
OkayPhysicist 4y ago
What regional dialect of English are you using that the word "pa" is pronounced any differently? To my West Coast / NorCal ears, urying to use a stressed, second-a-in-"banana" pronunciation, is really weird, as is schwaing it to the point of "uh". The unstressed-short a (the other two 'a's in 'banana') sounds the best, and is perfectly reasonable to describe phonetically as "aw".
- standardly 4y ago
  .. In the same way "fa la la" is not sung "faw law law"
  - OkayPhysicist 4y ago
    I would write that as either "faw lah lah" or "fuh lah lah" or maybe "fuh luh luh". The "paw" sound is undeniably how I'd refer to my father, not "puh", or "pah", though I could imagine like a New England accent using the latter.
alance 4y ago
oh hey - I too made a password manager - and it's named paw! Pronounced however the heck you like. https://github.com/alexlance/paw https://github.com/alexlance/paw It's a wrapper around gpg symmetric encryption that accesses a store of encrypted passwords sitting on a remote server accessible via ssh.

aconbere 4y ago

I would pronounce pa as “paw”, like papa. Would you say it like the a in “apple”?

nulbyte 4y ago
If papa is a stand-in for father, I'd pronounce it with a long a, as in father. If papa is a stand-in for grandfather, I'd pronounce the first a as in apple, and the second as in paw. But of also spell it papaw. Seeing 'pa' in its own, I'd never think it was pronounced like paw, unless I was reading something written in Hungarian.
- appletrotter 4y ago
  I pronounce 'pa' like 'paw.' Short for papa I guess. Always have, always will.
mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y ago
None of the above. No one pronounces "aw" like the a in Apple. And most people do dinstinguish between "a" and "aw" by pronouncing the latter more like the a in "awe".
- FPGAhacker 4y ago
  Merriam-Webster at least gives one of two possible pronunciations for “pa” as identical to “paw.” https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pa https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pa Relevant for the US.
- aconbere 4y ago
  Right I’m just confused how you would pronounce it. Because I would almost certainly default to saying pa like “awe”.
  - yreg 4y ago
    ESL speaker here, "pa" like in "parking"
  - I_complete_me 4y ago
    There is a favourite old joke of mine that depends heavily on this pronunciation: A dog limps into a bar. The barman looks at him and say "What can I do you for?" and the dog replies "I'm a looking for the man that shot my pa".
  - deathanatos 4y ago
    "pa" would be pronounced between these two, depending on speaker: /pɑː/ — if I had to use "normal person's IPA", "pah" would be my attempt. This, to me, is the more common pronunciation. Should rhyme with "bra" … assuming you pronounce that like I do. /pɔː/ — like "paw" or "awe". This is a region-specific dialect, to me. This appears to be the one you're familiar with. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English for a chart.
pimlottc 4y ago
To me (American Midwest), “papa” (father) and “pawpaw” (a type of fruit) are not pronounced the same way. “Papa” is more like “pahpah”.

mb7733 4y ago

> No one is gonna see "pa" and think it's pronounced "paw", and no one is gonna hear you say "paw" and think the invocation is "pa" Well consider me a counter example.

drexlspivey 4y ago

Wait till you hear how age is pronounced

mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y ago
Awgee?

seanw444 4y ago

Or, who really cares how people pronounce it? It's very unlikely for there to be many scenarios where someone was trying to find this, but couldn't, just because they heard someone say it wrong. Most people will find it through textual means. I don't get the obsession with projects specifying the pronunciation in the README. If anything it just means you failed at naming your project.

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jrm4 4y ago

You're not in the American South, are you? These are not far from one another here.

OkayPhysicist 4y ago

What regional dialect of English are you using that the word "pa" is pronounced any differently? To my West Coast / NorCal ears, urying to use a stressed, second-a-in-"banana" pronunciation, is really weird, as is schwaing it to the point of "uh". The unstressed-short a (the other two 'a's in 'banana') sounds the best, and is perfectly reasonable to describe phonetically as "aw".

standardly 4y ago
.. In the same way "fa la la" is not sung "faw law law"
- OkayPhysicist 4y ago
  I would write that as either "faw lah lah" or "fuh lah lah" or maybe "fuh luh luh". The "paw" sound is undeniably how I'd refer to my father, not "puh", or "pah", though I could imagine like a New England accent using the latter.

alance 4y ago

oh hey - I too made a password manager - and it's named paw! Pronounced however the heck you like. https://github.com/alexlance/paw https://github.com/alexlance/paw It's a wrapper around gpg symmetric encryption that accesses a store of encrypted passwords sitting on a remote server accessible via ssh.