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How to pronounce programming words
Certain words in programming I've seen people mangle in various ways, and many times, I realized that I don't actually know the correct way to pronounce them.
So, I've constructed a list of what I consider to be the correct pronounciations of various words. I've tried to use the original authors of as the source, when possible, or other authoritative sources.
In alphabetical order:
- Akka: ahh kahh, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBvtE61Wrto
- Clique: click, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txaGsawljjA
- GIF: jif, sorry, http://www.olsenhome.com/gif/
- GNU: guh-new, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/En-gnu.ogg
- Godel: gurr-dle, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Kurt_g%C3%B6del.ogg
- Knuth: kuh-nooth, http://cs.stanford.edu/~uno/faq.html
- LaTeX: Leslie Lamport says there is no official pronunciation. Knuth pronounces it lah-tech, http://www.webofstories.com/play/donald.knuth/69;jsessionid=57A6533A825A17DE1474F30F5B254ADD
- Linux: Lih-nucks, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK0xXFZtJ8Q
- MySQL: my-ess-que-ell, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nalzRhtn-vw
- NumPy: num-pie, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrPRwUOt-7k
- OS X: oh-ess-Ten, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcZqJHH3Gkc
- PyPI: pie pee eye, http://www.quora.com/How-do-Pythonistas-pronounce-PyPy-and-PyPI
- Qt: cute, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hE-Oo4ltJg
- Scala: scah-lah, rhymes with challah, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecekSCX3B4Q
- SQL: ess-que-ell (since Sequel is the predecessor), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvmMGHtqY6Q
- TeX: tech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3vILM2cNuo
- Trie: tree, http://www.webcitation.org/5pqUULy24
- von Neumann: von noi-man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTS9O0CoVng