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On the pronunciation of “fsck”
- a3w 3y ago`fscheck (berkley)` made sense for me, as does "an u where the s in, now": `fuck`. Or better: unfuck, would be a good program name, since someting is fucked up, we let's try to repair it?
- macintux 3y agoWhen I was supporting an iPad rollout, I first encountered “DFU” (Device Firmware Upgrade) mode, useful for recovering a bricked device. I of course started referring to it as “Done Fucked Up” mode; I somehow suspect I wasn’t the first to do so.
- drewzero1 3y agoI had a friend who was an Apple service tech at a local computer store, and that's what he called it as well. I thought it was apt as you don't usually need to enter that mode unless you've DFU.
- DefineOutside 3y agoMojang wrote a DFU system called Data Fixer Upper. It is open source, peggs the CPU at 100% on startup for about a minute, doubles game launch time, references 10 research papers, sometimes corrupts the world, and is so abstract only the author knows how it works - all to upgrade game worlds to new versions. It is often called Data Fucker Upper.
- Daneel_ 3y agoI've always said it as "fusk", which is close to "fisk". In a professional context I've always called it fs-check though.
- INGSOCIALITE 3y agoeff ess see kay is how i've always said / thought it
- noman-land 3y agoIt has always been "f suck" to me.
- mike503 3y agoSame. f-suck. fsuck.
- pluc 3y agoThese "how it's pronounced" thing are funny. It's pronounced how it's written, because 99.999% of people won't bother to figure out what the correct, non-written pronunciation is. If you can't pronounce it, it's an abbreviation and it's not meant to be pronounced. It's like The RZA. I call him R.Z.A not Riza cause that ain't how that shit is written. If you wanna be called Riza, call yourself Riza, don't make me fill in the blanks or extrapolate, that's not how reading works.
- dontlaugh 3y agoThat attitude only really works in languages spelled consistently. English has far more ridiculous spelling, like Leicester for example.
- Culonavirus 3y agoAh yes, reminds me of my favourite meat flavoring ingredient, the Wurstwrsrcer sauce.
- ubutler 3y agoLet us not forget colonel and (in UK English) lieutenant (relevant: https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-19576,00.html https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-19...).
- mcny 3y agoWorcestershire sauce I don't care how these people want me to say their name. Worcester is like Manchester but with wor instead of man for me.
- fullstop 3y agoThat reminds me of a joke about someone calling for an ambulance because a friend was injured and incapacitated. The 911 dispatcher asked for their location, and the caller saw that they were on Worcestershire Street. Being unable to pronounce the word, they dragged the body over to Pine Street and continued the call.
- palemoonale 3y agoNow do JIRA. (none of my colleagues pronounce it correctly)
- eXpl0it3r 3y agoAs a start the product name is written as "Jira"
- TacticalCoder 3y agoI've always heard "jee rah" and it's very close to the way french coworkers used to pronounce it in french too. If I'm not mistaken Atlassian Jira promotional vids and tutorials do say "jee rah" too. And FWIW, not a very reliable source but ChatGPT says it's that too if you ask it. Are people saying "jie ray"?
- 0xDEFACED 3y agoI had never considered that there might be other ways to pronounce it. I’m gonna start saying it “zhee-rá” now
- bee_rider 3y agoApparently it is based on Japanese characters, so I guess you have to go to that language to get the correct pronunciation. I dunno, though, it would be more fun to pronounce it like “He-ra”
- igorguerrero 3y agoJira (/ˈdʒiːrə/ JEE-rə) says wikipedia, I had it right :)
- bitwize 3y agoJira's name comes from the Japanese name of Godzilla (ゴジラ, Gojira). Reason why is because it was intended to be a "Bugzilla killer". I have never heard anyone pronounce Jira incorrectly, always like "Jeera".
- boopmaster 3y agoas a truncation of Gojira (go jee rah), i assume it is "jee rah" as others have stated here.
- cmrx64 3y agoat the CS lab i cut my teeth in, in anger it was called “fuch sachy” (rounded u)
- grepfru_it 3y agoHad a friend say “sin” and “sout” for cin and cout in c++ class in high school. That usually led to arguments during our 10 minute compile times
- hackeraccount 3y agoI always said f-sock. No clue where I got that from.
- jzb 3y agoI started using Linux in 1996 and it was years before I met another Linux user, so I didn't run into other peoples' interpretation for quite some time. And missed out initially on the cultural stuff. I've always pronounced this "fisk," but my first iPod had the engraving "Bad Mother Fscker" -- because Apple wouldn't let you do the other, but "Fscker" slid right through.
- finnjohnsen2 3y agoive never said it out loud I think, but internally I say «fs-check»
- Tao3300 3y agoI maintain that "wiki" should be pronounced "weekee"
- 0xbadcafebee 3y agoIt's a Hawaiian word, so I would defer to their pronunciation
- Tao3300 3y agoThis person gets it.
- jordigh 3y agoI pronounce it "fsck", without a vowel, like "pssssst" when calling someone. English has vowel-less words! A few, at least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_words_without_vowels#Alphabetical_list_of_words_without_vowels_A,_E,_I,_O,_U,_and_Y https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_words_without_vowels#A....
- AstralStorm 3y agoIt is definitely supposed to rhyme with the expletive you say when you have to manually call it.
- mortenjorck 3y agoI’ve always known fsck to mean “file system check” (I guess there’s officially a “consistency” in there), and while I can believe it was retconnned, what I still don’t understand from the post is what the original, cheekier version actually abbreviated or where the “u” came from. (Though maybe, in the “GNU's Not Unix” vein, that is the joke?)
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 3y agoI assumed fsck was chosen on purpose because it's the tool you use when something was "f*cked" with your FS
- dfawcus 3y agoHuh? Simply "eff-ess-sea-kay"
- michaelcampbell 3y agoPronunciation of "computer words" is always a fun read to hear how people say things. (Weirdly, MMORPG's have this for me, too; different place names, mostly.) My secondhand contribution is a friend told me HIS colleague used to pronounce the `vi` editor as "six", because of course. Took him awhile to figure out what the guy meant when he said, "six the <whatever> file"...
- karmakaze 3y agoLess appropriate these days with journalling filesystems.
- dang 3y agoRelated ongoing thread: The many faces of fsck (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38668181 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38668181 - Dec 2023 (25 comments)
- ksaj 3y agoI guess I'm boring. I've been calling it "eff ess check" for decades.