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"Euler" instead of "Oiler"
and von Mises is von Meeseez which I can't manage to learn and still call it von my sis.
I take care of that one with Mises Pieces /g
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Not sure how an American would pronounce "oiler" but if it's "oil" as in "sunflower oil" then that's a pretty good emulation of the original German pronounciation of "Euler"...

Another anology

Euler-Room Boiler-Room

Roughly the same. (Minus the B of course)

> GIF like "gif", of course

I also loved they pointed out pronouncing `regex` as "rejects" was wrong.

I don't care what the creators say, I will die on the hill of it being gif with a hard G! :P
Or irritate _everyone_ and pronounce it with a soft J. Zhif.
I take issue with the options of "RAY-ghex" and "RAY-jeks." In my experience you can say either "REH-ghex" or "REH-jeks."
Reg like regular, from whence it comes. Regular Expression.
Vegan came from vegetarian. Signatory came from sign. When you alter spelling enough, people assume general pronunciation rules.

Since regex ultimately comes from Latin and has a g followed by an e, pronouncing it with a soft g is rather natural.

Yeah, thanks for not actually settling a damn thing with that description. The guy who created it says it with a soft G, so that's a reasonable authority to me. Anyone else, it's just their opinion.
Thank you! Peanut butter for the win.
I don't know, but it will always be "vyte".
Because vite means fast in French, which is ironic because French is a well-documented waste of time.
Regex should be "reg-ex" rather than any of the listed pronunciations since it's just short for regular expression
I think it's ambiguous whether to pronounce then abbreviate or abbreviate then pronounce. Here are some example from the Haskell world:

https://h2.jaguarpaw.co.uk/posts/pronouncing-abbreviations/

Ok, I like this game / question, but I daresay I'm confused about some of these (or have not even fathomed some of the implied pronunciations).

`seq`, `Eq`, `prev` I pronounce like the beginnings of the underlying words, so I'd say pronounce-then-abbreviate and abbreviate-then-pronounce yield the same result.

I guess this implies people are saying "SECK" (`seq`) and "ECK" (`Eq`), rhyming `prev` with "rev", and pronouncing `id` like Freud's id? (Eek.)

In fairness, I'll confess I pronounce `enum` "E-NUM", not "E-NOOM".

> pronouncing `id` like Freud's id?

Do you pronounce it as "eyed", or as two letters, I-D?

Regex is indeed reg-ex. Anyone who says "red-jex" is dead to me
In my experience most people that say regex a lot tend to pronounce it "rezh-eks". The softening drop from g to j to zh is a fascinating one in this context, and I think makes it easier to pronounce a lot. I'm not one to argue that it is the "right" pronunciation in general, but it is the "feels right" pronunciation to me.
LaTeX is....controversial. I say "LAH-tek" but I've heard a lot of different pronunciations. LaTeX was the original gif fight haha
I would always pronounce it as in Scottish Loch, but I guess that is natural if you are German.
Well, first of all LaTeX is derived from TeX. And the X isn't an x but the Greek letter X whose pronunciation seems to depend on Greek epoch and also geographic preferences. The final say would have Donald Knuth. I think he said it's like the Ch in (Happy) Chanukka ...
And again, a case where the creator could have done everyone a favor and not given it an obscure name that only an academic (and probably not many of those) would be able to pronounce correctly.
That’s one controversy that shouldn’t be. Quoth Knuth (The TeXbook, chapter 1, “The name of the game”):

> Insiders pronounce the χ of TeX as a Greek chi, not as an ‘x’, so that TeX rhymes with the word blecchhh. It’s the ‘ch’ sound in Scottish words like loch or German words like ach; it’s a Spanish ‘j’ and a Russian ‘kh’. When you say it correctly to your computer, the terminal may become slightly moist.

the controversy isnt `ck` vs `x`, it's LAH-tek vs LAY-tek vs lah-TEK vs lay-TEK
I just… can’t. It’s lay-teks to me. I have to deal with non-technical people and having every conversation about a LaTeX feature turn into a “well, actually” discussion of Ancient Greek sounds like hell for all of us.
Took me years to realize Linux wasn't lie-nix. Some of my friends had been calling it that and it seems we were a bubble of wrong. There's also the lee-noox camp but that's just weird.

Also sea hash turned out to be sea sharp.

Took me several years to unlearn 'Lie-nix'!
> Also sea hash turned out to be sea sharp.

This irked me when I learned it as I'm into both tech and music, but it never once occurred to me to apply the music convention to a tech name.

JEE-rah, not GY-rah
/me pronounces something unprintable
azure is tough for me.
where I'm from it's pronounced like "Ärger" ... which is quite apt. cause that what you get when you use it.
For a very long time I thought "cache" was pronounced with a voiced e, "cach-ay", probably cause I thought of "cachet".
I had a boss who did that many many years ago and it was like nails on a chalkboard. I'm glad you have corrected yourself. :)
I heard cash-ee and cage. Of course, it is cash like cache is king.
I'm Aussie, so I'm automatically wrong, but here in Australia it's typically pronounced "caysh". It's a uniquely Australian thing, saying cache this way outside of this country will get you looks.
Don't worry, you're not alone - Kiwis do the same.
Cache has no cachét, if done right (other than speed of access)
Idempotent anyone? Eye-dempotent or id-empotent?
I'd say it's e-dem-po-tent. Not eye, but eagle.
Ih-DEM-po-tent. Also: huh-MODGE-en-us. Like nails on a chalkboard to me when I hear ho-mo-GENE-ee-us.
The worst I heard was calling PHP “pup”. Yes that’s a u.
I was at a Drupal workshop years ago and the guy running it referred to .tpl.php template files as "tipple fipps". Not as absurd as "pup", but still made my skin crawl.

I also recall in the early 2000's hearing people call .html files "hotmail files".

> Linus (Torvalds) technically "LEE-nuhs" in those European languages while "LYE-nihs" in English, but he actually doesn't care what you say

It's hard not to forgive people to pronounce your name wrong, when they've never met you or anyone that pronounces it correctly. They've only read it on the screen and they still say your name as best they can.

Hey, I am English and I pronounce it lee-nus as do others I know. Though English is a European language so I'm not sure where that leaves us!
It might also be a Nordic thing. In my experience we go out of our way to allow for English pronunciations of our names.
>It might also be a Nordic thing. In my experience we go out of our way to allow for English pronunciations of our names.

Do you also (and correctly, I might add) decry the errors of the Anglosphere as Mr. Wirth did[0][1]?

   Niklaus Wirth has lamented that, whereas Europeans pronounce his 
   name correctly (Ni-klows Virt), Americans invariably mangle it into
   (Nick-les Worth).  Which is to say that Europeans call him by name,
   but Americans call him by value.
[0] https://motd.ambians.com/quotes.php/name/freebsd_fortunes_5/...

[1] No, this is nothing new. Then again, perhaps someone will see it for the first time and be one of today's "lucky 10,000"[2]

[2] https://xkcd.com/1053/

I had a lot of trouble with "tuple": is it "too-pul", "tyu-pul" (like pupil) or "tupple" (like supple). I've heard it pronounced all ways by now
I go with tupple. There is precedent (see: tuppence).
love it

especially the sense of humor... like on gif

I have never heard anyone say "regex" with an /eɪ/ sound like "RAY". It's /ɛ/ like in "meh", or indeed the first syllable in "regular". (though "regex" has a "soft g" /dʒ/, not a "hard g" /g/ like in "regular").
Could it be an accent thing? Trying to learn foreign language pronunciation as a New Zealand English speaker is frustrating; I should not be pronouncing 에 as the vowel in “bed” the way I say the latter, but that’s what every description of it says.
I pronounce it as a portmanteau of regular and expression, and will continue to do so despite any corrections ;)
how do you say "SIEM" or its less popular but apparently equivalent form, "SEIM"?
"Seem" mostly, but I also hear "semm" quite a lot.
I used to hear "seem" but lately its all "sim"
I worked with a guy who pronounced vi as "six".
I always said "vee-aye" for vi, but I just say "vim" like it looks like it should be said. If it actually stood for "VI Improved" it should be "viim" (pronounced veem?).
I said “Freznul” for Fresnel in front of a lighting designer. He said “ah! So you’ve been reading!”

I remember that now when someone pronounces something as it’s spelled. They’ve likely been studying by actually reading something, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

Huh... TIL I've been pronouncing it wrong. Either the Fresnel equations never came up while I was studying physics or my professor(s) also mispronounced it lol
One of our friends has a great one - they (husband and wife) both say "Carry-catcher". For example: "Man, that portrait looks more like a carry-catcher!"

(caricature)

No Whois. I said that wrong for a long time. It's WhoIs. Two words.
Back in the BBS days I used to pronounce "warez" like "juarez", growing up in a spanish speaking community, and not knowing it was short for "softwares".
My friends and I also pronounced it that way. We are all english speakers, just not very bright ones, apparently.
"Ecks-eff-see-ee" (Xfce), not "x-face" (sadly, got this myth debunked just now lol)