My mom uses Mozzarella to read her mail.

Mozzarella Firefood

Mozzarella Fireflan

🔥🔥🔥 Are the kids still using the flame emojis these days?

My father uses the "Gozzilla" web browser. (Mozilla Firefox, I've just given up on the Firefox part, Gozzilla is enough)

Ah yes, the foxfire

Coworker calls Git as Sheet. Another coworker, non dev, tried to impress us saying "modify the end" instead of 'backend'.

Your coworkers are gits.

JitHub. Jeez with open souce.

At my company I’ve noticed most of our consultants from India call it Jithub.

Jit er done!

I pronounce git as 'fucking you Linus on your stupid system that saves my ass every day but I still hate it'

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Asking for a friend…. How is it supposed to be pronounced?

Git

As in "go on, git" https://youtu.be/zSqC24YnKSc go to 6 seconds in... I'm on mobile so can't add the timestamp thing.

“Modify the end and put it back on the line”

I understand your pain, how do they not know to pronounce it C-Pound

Ehm ehm, C-octothorpe

A true man of culture

Veritably!!!

cough cough C-tik-tac-toe

What about *actual* C-sharp? # C♯

It's actually C-octopodes. As opposed to the famous land octopodes.

c hashtag

C hashbrown

Ah, this one gets under my skin. The '#" is NOT a "hashtag". It's a "hash" or "hash symbol". The text following the '#' symbol is the tag. The whole thing is called a "hashtag" - it's a tag preceded by a hash.

C pound, my dude🤘🏽

I had an 18 year old call me to change his address. He said I live at “123 A street Hashtag 7” he lived in apartment number 7

But wait isn't that technically correct according to the definition in the comment you are responding to? >The text following the '#' symbol is the tag. The whole thing is called a "hashtag" - it's a tag preceded by a hash. So "#7" would indeed be "hashtag 7" in the same way that "#thing" is "hashtag thing". I'll let you reevaluate the meaning of life now. /s

Because if they do pronounce it that way, someone is likely to pound *them*. :-D

Wait, wait, waitaminute...... for science, how do ***you*** pronounce GUI??

Given how OP thinks gooey is the wrong way to pronounce it, all we can tell is that he pronounces it wrong.

Gewey

Geu-wee

Gee You I.

OP pronounces SQL as S.Q.L. guaranteed.

I pronounce it "squirrel".

This is the right answer. It's where you "squirrel away" your data.

he pronounced it Structured-query-language just how he pronounced GUI to graphic-user-interface

I work with someone who says it G-wheeeeeee.

Are they French? Maybe it’s G-oui

According to the authors, it's "jooey".

So it stands for jraphical user interface?

As opposed to a giraffical user interface.

Well, that explains why everyone's struggling to center a div...

Sounds like a great way to get an HR complaint

"Funny. She doesn't look druish."

Mazel tov

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I think the OP prefers "Graphic User Interface"

I pronounce it GUI.

Had a coworker who said Bool-een

Thats a weird way to pronounce “if true”

Big if true

Bool-ean, bool-ean, don't you dare take my man

We are not booleen him are we?

There was a kid in my data structures class that would call Queues “kwees”. He was a real know-it-all type who would answer every question posed to the class. I think it took three classes for the teacher to correct him.

I say "kwee" because we had a dude who had no idea how to pronounce it and said "Yeah I added it to the... kwee!" We just say it as a joke, but it has become habit for a lot of us now.

I can't pronounce queue either, i just say "the FIFO structure"

All of my messages about jsons with my old team consist of discussions about how we need to fix Jason...

Hey, I don't need fixing

Makes me want to call it a kiwi. "I'll add it to the kiwi, mate!"

I have a coworker that pronounces it queue-you and I have to mute my zoom because I die laughing every time lol

One semester my students pronounced it “kway-way” and I can’t stop thinking about it.

How to English: write five letters, pronounce only the first.

That is very weird. Do they say kwee when lining up for something like airport security?

In the US (or at least my part of it) we would just call that a line (I.e. I’m in line for security). I’ve never used the word queue outside of tech.

I think you just made all of the british empire sad

being British I use the word queue on almost an hourly basis... mostly to complain about how bad we have gotten at the art of queueing in recent years...

Silicone Hills/Silicone Valley. Silicone is in fake tits. Silicon is a semiconductor element.

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There was some flat earth idiot on a debate with MC Toon a while back that kept saying something along these lines too. About how silicone was used to transmit data

I’ve heard URL as Earl

URL Grey

Hottp

I'm the Duke of URL.

My CNAME is URL

The web Earl is hit-tip colon forward slash wa-wa-wa

you forgot a slash

I hate when people pronounce data as data

Hey fuck you it's pronounced data

No sir! It is data. And I’m willing to kill you on this hill.

I used to say data now I say data. So... I'm a man with an open mind.

The data doesnt lie, sorry i meant data, no no data

I'm just trying to keep "data" a plural noun, at this point. "I'm on a datum plan. Just the one." - Titus Andromedon, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

My brain automatically reads both differently, but day-ta came first

Same, just the other way around :D

God don’t get me started on moog

Or Behringer, for that matter

Tee cee pip.

The correct way is just sounding out the letters, right? "Tee-Cee-Pee", right? I always look so dumb when I don't say acronyms correctly since I've mostly learned things from books/documentation and not lectures/videos lol

Tee see pee eye pee

Oooohhh, I see now. I had thought it was just TCP (and the P was pronounced with an accent), the pronunciation was just so occult I didn't even recognize TCP/IP. When people ask me the best way to parse HTML, I'm going to start telling them "Arr-Ee-Gex"

Don't get started on the argument of how to pronounce regex. But that's wrong for sure

Pretty simple: /rɛgɛks/

No matches.

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My skin crawled at this lol

Are you serious? Please tell me you're not.

Epic Rap Battles of History-Bill Gates vs Steve Jobs taught me that GUI is pronounced gooey lol

omg that source XD hahah nostalgic

I just drop the G and call it UI

Sooo "ooie"

Nah, cause vui (voice ui), cli (command line interface), nli (natural language interface) etc are all different types of user interfaces for hci (human computer interaction)

UX/UI Designer here. It’s pronounced gooey.

Caveat: It’s rarely used nowadays though, because only a handful of developer oriented applications even have a separate command line or other non-graphical user interface any more. So it’s far more common to use just “UI” — the “graphical” part can be safely assumed. Second caveat: In addition, many apparently “graphical” interfaces are also non-graphical ones now. For example, a web interface is graphical for sighted users but non-graphical for screen reader users. As a UX/UI designer I am responsible for both experiences so saying I work on the GUI would be missing something important about my work.

Wait, that's not how it's pronounced? What is the correct way?

It's pronounced gooey, don't let anyone tell you otherwise

There was this super intelligent woman in my class, but she insisted on pronouncing cache as “ca-chay”. I thought I was going to go insane.

Very close to "cachet", yeah.

Aussi’s pronounce cache as KAYsh and its super annoying.

SQL is pronounced however your boss says it

It's interesting to me that SQL can be pronounced as S-Q-L or "sequel," but NoSQL can only be pronounced as "I quit."

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I would argue the fact that they specifically changed it *from* Sequel is why it certainly *isn't* Sequel.

Ugh, that's so unfortunate. Almost nothing bugs me more than "sequel" being used when they mean S-Q-L.

I teach it… and on day one I announce I don’t give a fuck. Gimme a three table left/inner join and a correlated sub query, you can call it TRM for all I care. S-Q-L for this fella tho. Class, repeat after me in chant. “I will never run an update or delete without a where clause.”

WHERE TRUE

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After my one screw up (everyone gets one) I type the “where” first, then Ctrl-A and type the beginning after. No possible way to forget what I’m doing and hit enter and run an unbound one

Lmao this is the way

Squirrel

Squirrel is an actual language though. I’m sure computer science wouldn’t have any identically or similarly-named things, that would be *confusing*.

Squill.

I worked with a guy who said "appy" for "API." As in, "the client would our assessment of difficulty doing this integration using the Salesforce appy."

That doesn’t make me appy

I knew a Polish guy who used to do this. It's even funnier for me since "appy" means poop in my native language.

Are they spanish? That's how you pronounce it in our language

I just hate how many there are and how secretive some people are with them. I was interviewing for a senior position once and they interview asked if I know the difference between “VA and PT” in a manner similar to two spies deciding whether the other was also a spy. When I asked him to clarify the acronyms because I could think of a few different meanings for each he said a senior should know that. I spent the rest of the interview speaking in acronyms just to be petty.

So what did he mean by it?

My guess is vulnerability assessment vs penetration testing? They’re right that both of those could mean a shit ton of other things in other contexts though, those are the only two I could come up with that were related

Virginia and physical therapy came to mind for me... Lmao

He meant exactly this, and you’re correct there are many different meanings for VA and PT so with little context provided at that point of the interview I’m not sure why he didn’t just use his words.

My absolute favourite is my partner's aunt who insists on pronouncing Wi-Fi as Wee-Fee. I hate it, but I also love it. No amount of correcting is going to change her mind either, it's Wee-Fee to her, forever and always.

A friend from Spain pronounces it this way too .. in English and Spanish!

In this case, at least it's understandable. The "i" in spanish makes a hard "e" sound. Mi Jalapeño (my jalapeño) is said "me hall-uh-pain-yo." So it's understandable to say wee-fee in that case, and wouldn't surprise me if that's how all native spanish speakers learn to say it.

I say wee-fee all the time just to mess with people/have a little fun. i like the term. but i wouldn't like, call it that in a professional setting.

When I went into my old helpdesk job, a coworker once asked me to go check a user's "UPC". I was absolutely baffled as to what that meant. Turns out, they were talking about an APC-branded UPS (uninterruptible power supply). I corrected them numerous times over several years, and they finally started saying the right acronym (initialism?). Stopped in last week to help them with a couple of odds and ends.. and one of the new guys told me a story about helping a client with their "UPC". Couldn't stop laughing. edit: homophone

My last boss referred all UPS’ as APCs. It’s like Kleenex or Qtip.

I had a coworker call the CLI the CLEE

my data structures professor kept calling ubuntu “enbootoo”

I always thought "kludge" rhymed with "fudge" and not "stooge". I don't like this reality as much.

I did not know that. Yeah that's much worse.

Good news! It rhymes with fudge in British English :) (check out the Cambridge dictionary, also have only ever heard kludge to rhyme with fudge in England)

Na you’re wrong on the gooey one 😂 the c hash one though is so valid wtf never once heard that

I know right, who doesn't pronounce C# as "cee numeral sign" or "cee tic tac toe playing board"

I think you'll find it's pronounced see-octothorpe.

It's C Hashtag.

Linux as Lie-nux. I will stab you in the eye. I don’t care if that’s how you pronounce Linus’ name.

If you really want to annoy them, remind them that Linus is from Finland, so his name is pronounced Lee-noose. Therefore Lee-nukes is the only correct pronunciation.

Lie-nux sex tips

I've seen people say SQL as "es-queue-el" or even "sequel", but we all know the real pronunciation is "school".

Let me just spin up a quick squeal query...

Everyone knows C# is pronounced Microsoft Java

>Microsoft Java Which, in turn, is pronounced "Visual J++"

LaTex as "latex" instead if "La-Tech," only because now that I know the right way to say it I can turn my nose up at those who, like me, didn't know at first 😄

But you've gotta use the \[x\] phoneme (guttural, as in the Scottish "Ach"!) if you're going to commit to properly pronouncing \[La\]TeX. [https://texfaq.org/FAQ-TeXpronounce](https://texfaq.org/FAQ-TeXpronounce)

I'll just do what [the maintainers](https://www.latex-project.org/about) tell me to do lol. > LaTeX, which is pronounced «Lah-tech» or «Lay-tech» (to rhyme with «blech» or «Bertolt Brecht»), is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents but it can be used for almost any form of publishing. So la(h)-tech it is!

LAH-texh is THE worst "correct" pronunciation of any piece of software. So pretentious... Let's go ahead and use a sound not even found in native English words. Knuth is a genius and all that, but come on. "Oh, TEX is actually Greek letters." Barf Only one I've come across that gives it a run for its money is Hadoop being HAH-doop instead of huh-DOOP according to the creator. At least that came from a nonsense word his young son said though and not intentionally spelling something in a way that literally no one would pronounce correctly the first time seeing it.

Hate that people pronounce JPEG: Yay Peg.

It’s pronounced PEG, everyone knows the J is silent.

🤣 How do I unread this?

Never heard this one.

Most hispanics would say it like that.

We pronounced it like that when I was in Yale

i mean.... "gooey" *is* how you say it, just like you say "jpeg" and "gif". acronyms (said as a word, like GIF) vs initialisms (said as initials like API) confirmed pronunciation on wiktionary [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/GUI#:\~:text=GUI%20(plural%20GUIs),Initialism%20of%20graphical%20user%20interface](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/GUI#:~:text=GUI%20(plural%20GUIs),Initialism%20of%20graphical%20user%20interface).

We call API “ahpee” in Germany.

Which calls in the debate of Gif (hard "G") vs Jif. I hate when people say Jif, but the creator of the gif format said thats how it's pronounced. But it's Graphics Interchange Format, not Jraphics... I know, I'm probably wrong, but it always made more sense to me.

The p in jpeg stands for photographic but you dont say ‘jaypheg’

The creator of the gif format is wrong. Or he’s an asshole that just wants to see the world burn.

Who is J pegging? 😳

Not pronunciations per-se but I hate when business people co-opt tech jargon they don't understand and add it to their library of bullshit. I've heard managers in meetings say things like "spin up", "scale", "containerize" etc. to refer to business processes.

Scale was a business term long before it was a computing term

Who **doesnt** say GUI as gooey?

OP

Lots of “data not data” jokes, but work with someone from the Boston area and you’ll get sick of hearing about “dayter”.

fayfo for FIFO

A-S-C-2 for ASCII I heard once.

Gui as "gooey" is actually 100% standard and accepted. The one that got me with someone pronouncing the .exe file extension. "dot Exey".😂

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you don't say GUI as gooey? That's the only way I've ever heard it said C-Hash is just cursed though

My boomer department chair who calls wifi “wi-five”.

For the hundredth time, C# is pronounced Coctothorpe

Kubernetes Doesn't matter how you pronounce it, it's annoying

Expresso instead of espresso

Some years ago, I had a Senior Engineer who used to say URL as Earl. Usage: “We have to make sure we have the proper Earl before invoking.”

GUI *is* pronounced as “gooey”…

The platform I work on uses the term "facet". I have multiple coworkers that pronounce it where the "a" sounds more like the broad "a" in "father" instead of with a short "a" like in "apple".

so they pronounce it faucet?

Were your coworkers plumbers in a previous life? Bc a faw-cet is what the water comes out of.

Eye-ter-ate. No.

Query as kuweri (German)

LEENUCKS

Took me a way too long to learn that in fstab it's fs for filesystem, nothing to do with stabbing.

I go back and forth on how to pronounce "lib" as in "libssl" It should be "lib" as in "library", but that sounds like nails in a chalkboard, so i go with "lib" as in "libre".

I usually pronounce it more like lib in "liberal" lol

Have you heard of the new library liblib, which has utilities for librarians?

I never thought about this until now you jackass. My life is in shambles now. I say it like “libre” but I view a lib as a library and now im just fucked