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My jimmies get rustled with people say; AMI as Amy, CLI as cly (rhymes with fly), or /etc as E-T-C....
by zikduruqe 4y ago
My jimmies get rustled with people say; AMI as Amy, CLI as cly (rhymes with fly), or /etc as E-T-C....
- Infernal 4y agoI heard someone spell out /usr once, still haven’t fully recovered. EDIT forgot about bin pronounced bine (rhymes with pine)
- jen20 4y agoHow about lib? I’ve heard that one commonly pronounced as lib in liberal would be, but one coworker said it like the lib in library would be, which makes more sense but sounds bizarre!
- addandsubtract 4y agoLib is short for library in every day speech, as well, and pronounced "lib" not "lyb".
- skeeter2020 4y agoWhat camp do you fall into for Structured Query Language? I'm an SssQueEl purist (it's an acronym not an abbreviation) who bristles when I hear (the far more common) Sequel.
- HighChaparral 4y agoI use it daily and say each letter - everyone else I work with says Sequel. This all stems from when I originally learnt it 20 odd years ago and read something on the web that proclaimed S-Q-L was correct, and "Sequel" referred specifically to the Microsoft implementation. (The irony is not lost on me that having started working with MySQL, then Oracle, I've now ended up working daily with SQL Server and so I'm wrong by my own definition, which I probably took as gospel erroneously in the first place!)
- implements 4y agoAlso S.Q.L - but it’s an Initialism, not an Acronym (the latter being pronounceable as words eg NASA). (Re Doom) To my shame “ID Software” was always I.D not Idd, though! - don’t know how common that was.
- sgt 4y agoID Software is "Idd" though, isn't it? That was recently confirmed by Tom Hall on Reddit. He came up with the name.
- Quikinterp 4y agoI believe it is. And it's lower case as well!
- sgt 4y agoid Software
- hackcasual 4y agoSquirrel
- moogly 4y agoThat train kind of left the station. With "SQL", you can either try to be correct (and use both in different cases), or to be consistent (and accept you will pronounce some actual product names incorrectly), or — I suppose — to choose chaos (give up, don't care and just choose one at random at any new opportunity). I think the only possible misstep here is to decide to chide someone else for choosing any of the three paths.
- SapporoChris 4y agoSquill. https://xkcd.com/1989/ https://xkcd.com/1989/
- ambrose2 4y agoS-Q-L, except for products that are pronounced with Sequel (Microsoft SQL server, MySQL, SQlAlchemy, etc.)
- TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y agoI pronounce it Squid Lord
- TOGoS 4y agoI am trying and failing to find the entry in the jargon file that says something along the lines of "if you come across a person who pronounces 'SQL' as 'squirrel', you have found a true hacker indeed". Maybe it was not the jargon file. It's been many years. Along those same lines, I also like to pronounce "varchar" in a way[1] that is guaranteed to put a look of disgust on the face of almost everyone in the room; this is how I find my karass. [1] if anyone replies asking for specifics because they are "genuinely curious" I will slap them. Use your imagination.
- aardvark179 4y agoIt was the jargon file, but it was about SCSI, and that anybody who spelt it out was clueless.
- rustyminnow 4y agoGo ahead and slap me I guess, cuz I must not be imaginative enough. vare-care? var-car? v-archer? var-charr? varc-har I don't get it, none of those seem that bad
- a1369209993 4y ago> "if you come across a person who pronounces 'SQL' as 'squirrel', you have found a true hacker indeed" Well, I feel oddly validated, thanks. (In the sense of "squirrelly" - counterproductively idiosyncratic or disfunctional.) > "varchar" > < vare-care? var-car? v-archer? var-charr? varc-har "varker" maybe?
- shrimp_emoji 4y agoIf you pronounce it "char" (as in the word for "to storch") instead of "care", you're as bad as the people who say "jif".
- justajot 4y agoDo you mean as awesome as the people who say jif? ;-)
- IncRnd 4y agoAlways as SQL. Historically, SQL was a rename of SEQUEL [1], so there may be some people who say SQL as a word, but most people spell it. That's also how the SQL standard say to pronounce it, "S-Q-L". But, for Microsoft's WinDbg, the correct pronunciation for those in the know is, "wind bag". [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL#History [2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/debugger/debugger-download-tools https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...
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- darkwraithcov 4y agoMicrosoft SEQUEL server and My ESS-QUEUE-ELL. That's how I've always done it and same with all my coworkers even the OG data guys.
- jedberg 4y ago> My jimmies get rustled with people say; AMI as Amy I hate to break it to you, but that's the canonical pronunciation that Amazon uses. You've got an uphill battle ahead of you!
- iforgotpassword 4y agoWhat does Amazon have to do with BIOS firmware!?
- jedberg 4y agoBecause nowadays the more common interpretation of AMI is Amazon Machine Image. A lot more people deal with machine images than BIOS these days.
- oarsinsync 4y agoWhat’s an Amazon Machine Image? Did they take over American Megatrends?
- InvaderFizz 4y agoIts like a VMDK or OVA or QCOW2, but Amazon's take on it.
- sokoloff 4y agoInteresting. I’ve only heard them pronounced as A-M-I or “aa-mee” (with the a as in apple rather than as in aim), including with some friends who work at Amazon.
- jedberg 4y agoYeah, I was thinking ah-me. Just not A-M-I.
- ccooffee 4y agoHow do you say "CLI"? I've only ever heard it as "rhymes with fly", though maybe someone has spelled it out once or twice ("see ell eye").
- IncRnd 4y agoI've never ever heard CLI pronounced as a word but always as an acronym spelled, "see ell eye". Pronouncing as a word seems odd, like pronouncing PII as pie or IPX as epic.
- jwiz 4y agoI hear it a lot in sentences like "Is there a 'kly' command for it or do you have to use the 'gooey'?" If you are saying it a lot, you pretty quickly adjust to saying a 1-syllable word, instead of saying 3 syllables, whatever your moral stance is. :) Plus, why should "GUI" get a pronunciation but "CLI" be neglected?
- IncRnd 4y ago> Plus, why should "GUI" get a pronunciation but "CLI" be neglected? It's probably because the person who made the acronym or initialism had wanted it to be pronounced a certain way and chose a sequence of letters to achieve the desired result. Of course, the speakers of the letter-group will later decide when and how they will pronounce it! Acronym: a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word [1] Initialism: a set of initials representing a name, organization, or the like, with each letter pronounced separately [2] [1] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/acronym https://www.dictionary.com/browse/acronym [2] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/initialism https://www.dictionary.com/browse/initialism
- NoZebra120vClip 4y agoIn the mid-90s, there was some controversy/discussion over how to verbalize "WWW". Very unwieldy in its spelled-out 9-syllable form! So one of my coworkers proposed "dub-three" - two syllables - so sorry it never caught on.
- iforgotpassword 4y agoLuckily everyone around me says E-T-C, none of those "etcetera" weirdos.. :-)
- jwiz 4y agoI always say "ett-cee".
- IWillForgetThis 4y agoYou just blew my mind, is that the source of the name Etsy?
- jedberg 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etsy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etsy "Kalin said that he named the site Etsy because he "wanted a nonsense word because I wanted to build the brand from scratch. I was watching Fellini's 8 ½ and writing down what I was hearing. In Italian, you say etsi a lot. It means 'oh, yes' (actually it's "eh, si"). And in Latin and French, it means 'what if'."[43][44] In Greek, Etsy means "just because"."
- philistine 4y agoIn French, the T would have to be silent to be Et si, so it's not that word. There's nothing in French called ett-çi.
- phamilton 4y ago"ett-cee f-stab" may be my favorite vocalization of sys-admining.
- zikduruqe 4y agof-stab... not f-ess-tab?
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- peatmoss 4y agonumpy, clearly rhymes with lumpy :-)
- jodrellblank 4y ago‘numpty’ - it has an invisible t, the opposite of a silent t.
- zikduruqe 4y agoHere's another... one of my co-workers says yer'll for URL. Ugh.
- shrimp_emoji 4y agoThis is common in other languages. Pronouncing letters in English is especially tedious. "You ar el" is so oppressive to say compared to "oo rr luh" as you might in a Romance language. And both are worse than "uhrl". Also, we don't got a problem with "bios" for BIOS. :p (Yet few people seem to use "yufi" for UEFI.)
- salawat 4y agoYufi sounds too much like "Roofie", which is what I call a Yufi that has network connectivity and is hosted on a machine with an appropriate network card. Friends don't let friends compute on Roofied computers... Or worse, roofie their own systems!
- lostlogin 4y agoThis sounds like Ural to me. Excellent stuff. Acronyms are actually the devil. In the medical world it’s been further optimised such that one abbreviation can mean many things. And then people ‘handwrite’ (it’s actually just scribbles) half their documentation so that you can’t read it. If you are lucky enough to work in a service that captures things from diverse specialities the result is dark comedy. MRA = magnetic resonance angiogram. Or magnetic resonance arthrogram. CT = computed tomography. Or corneal transplant. Those are just the two that caused thousands of dollars of errors in my recent memory, but it’s a daily battle working out what the hell a referral means.