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Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

The "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't.

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The "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't.

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

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Most of those are the way I commonly hear, except I’ve always heard PNG pronounced “ping”.
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  I call them pong files

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