josefo@leminal.space to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoThe "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't.message-squaremessage-square120fedilinkarrow-up1164arrow-down136
arrow-up1128arrow-down1message-squareThe "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't.josefo@leminal.space to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square120fedilink
minus-squarenublug@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·9 months agowe 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.
minus-squaremisophist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoMost of those are the way I commonly hear, except I’ve always heard PNG pronounced “ping”.
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.
Most of those are the way I commonly hear, except I’ve always heard PNG pronounced “ping”.