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How 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").
by ccooffee 4y ago
How 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.
- dakiol 4y agoIn my experience, non-native english speakers pronounce it as "klee". But IBM is just I-B-M (because you cannot actually pronounce it like a word). In general, if the acronym can be pronounced like a word, non-native english speakers will do so. More examples of acronyms that are pronounced like words: AMI, GUI, BIOS, ios, RAID, ROM, RAM, DIMM.
- mysterydip 4y agosee ell eye. If I heard "cly", I wouldn't have known what they were talking about until this thread.
- fbdab103 4y agoI did not realize humans existed who ever attempted to pronounce it.
- tharkun__ 4y agoNow mix in other language speakers pronouncing the English acronyms but while speaking their language. Ask a German speaker to say CLI. Probably comes out something like "clee". With the C like in "corn". C makes that hard German K sound.
- larusso 4y agoDepends on where in Germany. In the west most pronounce it like K. Like the the word China is pronounce Kina with a hard K. In east and north it is pronounced like a german sch like Schina. The c together with a k like in „backen“ or „lecker“ just sounds like a second „k“ („lek-ker“) I and my colleagues all pronounce CLI the English way btw. But growing up I had a hard time with the word „cache“. I pronounced it the German way which sounded very silly.
- antihero 4y agoIn U.K. I think pretty much everyone spells it.