How do you pronounce things?

[RBH]

I've always pronounced it "Ooh Bunn Too". Which sounds a bit silly, really.

Linux -> Lynn-ucks, though I used to call it Lie-nucks and, briefly, Lee-nucks.
MySQL -> My S-Q-L
Postgresql -> Post-grez
GNU -> Noo
Daemon -> Day-monn
/var -> Vaar (as in varsity)
/usr -> User
/etc -> E-T-C

[bilbravo]

i always pronounced SCSI - scizzy, not scuzzy

i hate when people say "gooey" for gui, i just say "g-u-i"

i call a ~ tilde, i notice people on here have lots of names for it
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[doode]

daniel robbins pronounces portage as "pour-taaj"..

[venquessa2]

linux = line-ics
GNU = G N U
MySQL = My S-Q-L
GlibC = G lib see
Portage = pour-tajj
Xp = xtra painful


! = NOT or exlaimation mark, when not talking to other geeks.
# = Hash (were do you americans get pound from? :S thats £).
$ dollar, string or variable duffer
~ = squigle thingie
"" = quotes
'' = single quotes
& ampersand or and.
>< greater then, less than
() brakects
[] square brackets
{} squigly brakcets
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[SubAtomic]

Has computing in general changed the way you say things?

Here's an example.
Route. Australians generally pronounce this as 'root' (which is also a colloquialism for sex ... "Did you get a root last night?")

Now 'rooter' (router) and 'rooter rack' sound stupid. In computing you pronounce it 'rau-t' but whenever I see or use this word outside of the computer world I still pronounce it 'rau-t' which makes people look at me funny
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[ShadowMetis]

I've always thought ASCII should be A-S-C-I-I. I've never actually heard anyone use the term though, so I can't be sure. I have a teacher that keeps pronouncing it "asky." Is this correct?

[richk449]

I have always used "asky", and always heard it called "asky". I have never heard anyone spell out the letters.

[Jazzed]

Got one to add that many people don't seem to get right...

Knoppix - the 'k' IS pronounced
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[ShadowMetis]

I'll stick with A-S-C-I-I, G-U-I, and tilde for my pronunciations. You really can't go wrong with saying the letters. It IS an acronym afterall therefore making the letters more technically correct.

And for Knoppix, does it really matter? Who uses knopix? I know one person and when I found out I convinced him to go to Mandrake.

[fkryszon]

Gentoo = Pygoscelis papua http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=huarndx2vms1?method=4&dsid=2222&dekey=Gentoo+Penguin&gwp=8&curtab=2222_1&sbid=lc03b


seriously:

Gentoo \Gen*too"\ (j[e^]n*t[=oo]"), n.; pl. Gentoos (j[e^]n*t[=oo]z").

Gen comparable with :
Gender \Gen"der\ (j[e^]n"d[~e]r)
Too should take a while to say, since it's infinite ....

[Ma3oxuct]

Here are my pronunciations:

Linux --> Lueniks
ASCII --> A - S - C double I
Glibc --> G-lib-es
! --> shift one
<> --> open close
() --> parenthesis
[] --> brackets
{} --> good-looking-brackets
: --> double dot
; --> dot comma
| --> line
# --> criss-cross
BIOS --> Bai - os

SCSI --> Skazi
Postgresql --> Post-ajdsfohfsdd
/etc --> et cetera
/opt --> optional
/proc --> processor
/lib --> library
/ --> slash

gnome --> g-nome
qt --> Q-t
ssh --> shell
daemon --> dai - mon

Microsoft --> what?

[shredluc]

I use # as hash when talking to programmers and # as pound when talking to "normal" people.

I've never heard # as sharp untill i heard of C#.

When i first started talking about that language i thought it was "See-hash" or "see-pound" but "see-sharp"???

Must be from Microsoft.
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[shredluc]

aja:

Well that would certainly explain it, since i don't know the first thing about music and that thought never occured to me.

If Microsoft chose that symbol for precisely that reason, kudos to them - although i would call c# many other names, most of them not as nice and pleasant.
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[tigrezno]

linux = "LANOOOOXXX"

[SwooshingRob]

vi = 6
X = 10

Nah, only kidding. (Although I have actually heard people using the first one.)

[stillman]

how do you say 'chmod'?
i sometimes catch myself when speaking to linux people in real life(which is very rare) that i don't really know how to say the commands that seem natural to me when i'm writing them. 'chmod' is one of them, i'd say 'tche-mod', with chgrp or chown i'd simply speak them out, like 'change-group' or 'change-owner'.

[jounihat]

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