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I've always pronounced it "not-Apache"
It took a while for me to get it, but it still read ngnix as "n.g. -nix" in my head.
Idiot. Using English letters to try to represent sounds they don't normally make. It didn't work for gif (pronounced commonly as gif instead of jif), why would they think it would work for them?
first rule of english pronunciation: there are no rules. All that matters is if people understand what you mean when you say it.
I gave up on this discussion when you have to consider gin, generate, giraffe, gene, gym, etc
Also I pronounce it with the soft sound because that's what it sounds like in the bloody alphabet.
Also I pronounce it with the soft sound because that's what it sounds like in the bloody alphabet.
How do you pronounce the words "Cat celebration?" Is it "Kat kelebration" or "sat selebration?" I'm guessing the latter since that's how C is pronounced in the bloody alphabet?
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so I assume you also say "jit-hub"?
No, and you don't say juitar (guitar), jame (game), or jallon (gallon), either.
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See also ghoti (fish). English orthography only works by agreement, not rules
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No, it's pronounced GIF
Also, the correct pronunciation for that Atlassian tool is "Gira".
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Don’t wanna yuck y’all’s yum but gross
like how curl in my head is "curl" and not "c-url"
It is pronounced like "curl" though!
We pronounce curl with an initial k sound. It rhymes with words like girl and earl. This is a short WAV file to help you:
…it's not "curl"?
EDIT (2025-02-27T04:15Z):
cURL (pronounced like "curl", /kɜːrl/) […] [1]
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References
- Title (article): "cURL". Publisher: Wikipedia. Published: 2025-02-20T12:12Z. Accessed: 2025-02-27T04:17Z. URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL.
- ¶1
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People pronounce GIF with a hard G, even though it's officially JIF, so who cares? /s, nothing agaisnt you, OP.
It's officially wrong, happens sometimes.
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The meaning kind of clicked to me the first time I've seen the word and tried to pronounce it - it ended as [ẽ.'ʒĩ 'ʃis], the first part is close enough to English [ˈɛnd͡ʒɪn] ⟨engine⟩ that the association was obvious. ([ʃis] is just the Portuguese name for ⟨X⟩.)
I can't stop pronouncing USAID as u said even after i finally heard it instead of just reading it
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You have to say it in a commanding Japanese accent... Engine X
It sounds way cooler that way