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If I follow your logic properly, then, when reading the sentence "The disk with all the PNG files was read too frequently for the IDE controller, so we switche
by rprospero 12y ago
If I follow your logic properly, then, when reading the sentence
"The disk with all the PNG files was read too frequently for the IDE controller, so we switched to a SCSI drive"
you would pronounce "PNG" as "Pea En Gee", "IDE" as "Eyed", and "SCSI" as "Ess See Ess Eye"? I would have pronounced "PNG" as "Ping", "IDE" as "Eye Dee Ee", and "SCSI" as "Scuzzy". I wonder if our differences are regional?
For the record, I pronounce "SQL" the same was that you do.
- jordsmi 12y agoIs saying "Ping" actually a thing? I've only ever heard "P-N-G"
- rprospero 12y agoFor what it's worth, the W3 pronounced it "ping", but this might just be a holdover from the 90s. I've honestly heard both. http://www.w3.org/TR/PNG-Introduction.html http://www.w3.org/TR/PNG-Introduction.html
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- dragonwriter 12y ago> I think SCSI as "scuzzy" is incorrect. I don't think the word "incorrect" means what you think it means. > Because you just have to ask one question: who decides the vowels? As with pretty much everything else in language, its decided by what people use and understand. Its not, of course, necessarily obvious on the face of a string of letters how it will get turned into an oral utterance, and, yes, some things written as initialism that end up treated as acronyms in speech do so by having vowel sounds inserted that are not unambiguously inferable from the written initialism. > Why "sequel" instead of "squel" or "skull". Because language is memes (transmitted, repeatable behaviors) and particular memes have been created and spread related to the terms at issue. > Isn't it just something a guy said once and everybody else just accepted as correct? Welcome to the whole world of language.