Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

The "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't.

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The "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't.

Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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11 months ago
we say jay-peg for jpeg, pee en gee for png, and ay tee em for atm. none of these are based on the pronunciation of the words they represent.
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  11 months ago
  Most of those are the way I commonly hear, except I’ve always heard PNG pronounced “ping”.
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    I call them pong files

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