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Apart from anything else, ECMAScript is a mouthful! Eeh-cee-emm-ay-script. Five syllables.

• tietjens 10mo ago
  Don't most people just pronounce it Eck-ma?
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• mbirth 10mo ago
  Since the association renamed itself to “Ecma International” in 1994, I believe we can just call it Eck-mah-script.
• mattkevan 10mo ago
  It's a genuinely terrible name. Maybe it should just be pronounced eck-ma-script so it's got the same number of syllables as ja-va-script.
  • lionkor 10mo ago
    It is pronounced like that, typically
  • art0rz 10mo ago
    I've only ever heard it pronounced as "EcmaScript" not E-C-M-A Script"
• hn_throw2025 10mo ago
  And it sounds like a skin condition.
  • biofox 10mo ago
    Flaky when under pressure? Irritating results? Sites look and feel better without it? Sounds appropriate to me.
• sph 10mo ago
  It should've been called AcmeScript. The association with Wile E. Coyote would've been fitting.
  • someguyiguess 10mo ago
    That’s actually the perfect name for it!