There's probably a word I've been pronouncing wrong my whole life that I don't know about
There's probably a word I've been pronouncing wrong my whole life that I don't know about
Just based on how often I notice someone mispronounce a word without realizing it (or have done so myself and realized it later). Statistically I'm probably still doing it with some word.
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For the C/C++ nerds: Clang. There are still many people pronouncing it "Cee-lang".
Wait but...but that means I'm supposed to pronounce it like the sound of slamming metal doors? but it's for the C language!
am I seriously getting gif'd again?
Why is it pronounced gif when it should be pronounced jif? It's so much clearer when you say jif! AND YES, I DO SAY GIRAFFICS! AAHHH!!
What about "Jay-feg"? The Joint Photographic Experts Group.
There is probably lots of stuff like that in coding. Href could be “huref, and it took me a while to realize that it was ‘em’ and not just ‘m’ after hearing it.
URL pronounced Earl
Charset like charamander.
Sequel server grinds my gears.
Wait until you hear stuhd, that's how we agreed to pronounce
stdbecause "ess tee dee" would have been awkward.Well fsck that.
I like pronouncing numpy so that it rhymes with lumpy just to make people uncomfortable.
That's how I've always read it...
Lol at my job someone referred to "E T C" and I was completely baffled until he actually typed it out, /etc... I just call it "ets" because it's short for "et cetera"...
Squeal server even more