Do people really pronounce URL as "earl"

In My Humble Opinion
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I say ‘earl.’ I’ve always said ‘earl,’ ever since the internet first came to my attention.

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jiff is peanut butter

gif is an image

43

Ask Elbridge Gerry, VPOTUS under Madison who hashad it bastardized into jerrymander.

(alumnus of the Elbridge Gerry Elementary School)

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I say “earl” and “jiff” and “jay peg”, but I usually say “ess cue ell”.

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“mow dumb” sounds DAF to me. It stands for “Modulate/demodulate” and we don’t say “Mowedulate Demowedulate.” =)

I say “You Are El.” and when my users stare at me blankly, continue, “Web address.” :slight_smile:

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No he doesn’t. His name is pronounced closer to Lee-nus or Lee-Noos. He pronounces Linux with a short i, as Len-ux.

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FAQ is still pronounced “fack,” right? (Oh dear.)

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FAQ is eff ay que

GameFAQs is game facks

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Considering that the folks who came up with the protocol wanted it pronounced “sexy”…

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And don’t forget dubdubdub (www)

Si

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You mean the way the creators said it was pronounced? :dubious:

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My brother in law pronounces it wee-fee, Runs With Scissors. I’ma punch him in the head! (NB: Might be a cumulative response there)

People take the piss out of me for saying “dub dub dub”* for “double-you double-you double-you”, but it makes sense! Otherwise the abbreviation is feeking well longer.

  • “You’re one of those people who redundantly pronounces websites with the www prefix like it’s 1992, aren’t you. Get off my internet”, you say? Aha! Not so. It comes up a lot in web development, quite legitimately, when you’re discussing DNS and propagation issues and why the hell can’t I see my website yet, you cowboy. Et cetera. Really.

Ciggy-bin. That’s one I like. I’m pretty indifferent on url / U.R.L (It would be “url”, with a “urrrr”, round here. “Earl” would be a totally different pronunciation)

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Try “Six-U” instead.

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Out here on the left coast I’ve never heard it pronounced “earl.” But honestly I don’t how often I hear it said, regardless.

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You are el

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Linus Torvalds is Finnish.

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They probably said “earl” too :stuck_out_tongue:

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Yes, but his first language and cultural background are Swedish, just like over 5% of the population of Finland and including individuals such as CGE Mannerheim and Jean Sibelius. I don’t know what the Finnish equivalent of “Linus” is, but I’m going to guess it has a couple of extra vowels.

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I think the pronunciation of Linux was also influenced by Minux or Minix or whatever that earlier flavour of Unix for microcomputers was called.

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BTW the wikipedia article on Linux has a sound file of Linus Torvalds pronouncing Linux.