josefo@leminal.space to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoThe "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't.message-squaremessage-square115fedilinkarrow-up1165arrow-down136
arrow-up1129arrow-down1message-squareThe "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't.josefo@leminal.space to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square115fedilink
minus-squareNougat@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·11 months agoJraphics Interchange Format.
minus-squarenublug@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up8·11 months agowe 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-up2·11 months agoMost of those are the way I commonly hear, except I’ve always heard PNG pronounced “ping”.
minus-squareTurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-211 months agoSo 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.