• archon@sh.itjust.works
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    …is gnome meant to be read as ‘genome’? Never realised that was a possibility as a non-native English speaker. Always based it off the garden variety Gnome with a silent G.

    This is like sequel or ess-que-ell all over!

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      is gnome meant to be read as ‘genome’?

      If we’re being pedantic, yes 🙂

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        I’ve been using Gnome for 24 years and have only ever pronounced it like the thing you’d put on your lawn if you’re an old person in Florida. But I guess that’s what happens when you only ever read about a subject and never talk about it in person.

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            My son and I got into a big argument about how that’s pronounced. He said imm-gurr and I said imager. Since he’s younger I assumed he was right, but it sounded so stupid I refused to yield. 😂

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            I never actually had to pronounce it, but in my mind MySQL was “my squeal” for years and years. The first time I talked to another PHP programmer about it I said “my squeal”, and he did a double take, then said “hold on, what did you just say?”. Then we had a pretty good laugh about it after he corrected me.