josefo@leminal.space to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 年前The "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't.message-squaremessage-square109fedilinkarrow-up1162arrow-down133
arrow-up1129arrow-down1message-squareThe "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't.josefo@leminal.space to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 年前message-square109fedilink
minus-squarenublug@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 年前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.
minus-squaremisophist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 年前Most of those are the way I commonly hear, except I’ve always heard PNG pronounced “ping”.
minus-squareTurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-21 年前So Scuba is pronounce Skuh-bah then, right? Since it’s Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.
Jraphics Interchange Format.
They are usually seen next to J-fegs
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”.
I call them pong files
So Scuba is pronounce Skuh-bah then, right? Since it’s Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.