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My first English teacher in Germany taught us this way as well. She was horrible. Calling kids stupid and such.
One of my biggest pet peeves in programming, hell even language in general, is when people sound out abbreviations. Like they say url instead of U.R.L. Or sequel instead of S.Q.L. Or in Star Wars when they say at at instead of AT-AT. The funniest one is smück for CMYK.
I knew somebody (not a programmer) who pronounced HTML as "hotmail". I normally let people pronounce things however they want, but I had to beg her to pronounce it differently because I simply couldn't deal with it pronounced like that.
"I'm very skilled at C pound"
Still better than "C hashtag".
I'm a purist. It's "C octothorpe"
You win. All the upvotes.
are you guys talking about C-crossword-grid ?
I think "hotmail" (the email service) is actually called that after HTML.
How old were they? Because this (top left) may be the reason...
I signed up for a Hotmail account in 1997. I told my mom and she freaked out. She heard hot-male.
I had a specific experience where I couldn't understand a client request the first time around because they kept talking about some guy named Earl.
I can't really express how jarring that pronunciation is - you just need to genuinely experience it sometime without warning to truly grok the oddness.
Url and at-at are solidly initialisms. SQL has a solid enough argument for being an acronym that I'll accept either.
I've never met anyone in tech who's pronounced it any way other than "sequel", and some of those folks were DB admins since the 80's.
A lot of our interns and fresh-from-school say S.Q.L. but everyone else is calling it sequel. Usually after a few years even the youth start calling it sequel, in my experience.
It's hard to say MS S.Q.L. Server, at least in comparison to MS Sequel Server
What I have a hard time with is when they just call it "sequel server". Obviously, I understand what they mean, but it seems so nonspecific.
What about FAQ?
Most everyone I know says F.A.Q. But I like saying 'fack', as in it's the page where you find the facts.
Squeal.
I like saying mumorperger for MMORPG because Yahtzee Croshaw said it that way in one of his review videos once.
Oh, yeah, that one is also on my whitelist.
And Laser.