• Raiden11X@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    There are so many examples in this thread alone as to why this rule doesn’t work.

    SCUBA: the U is for “underwater” and the A is for “apparatus”. We don’t pronounce it “SC-uh-B-ahhh”.
    JPEG: The P is for “photographic”. We don’t pronounce it “JayFeg”.
    LASER: The E is for “emission”. We don’t pronounce it “Lay-See-R”.
    RADAR: The second A is for “And” (lol). We don’t pronounce it “Ray-Day-R”.

    The easiest “rule” is just the guy who made it up can dictate how they want it spelled and to pronounce. The word is made up anyway, and isn’t subject to rules that actual English words have been subjected to for however long the language evolved.

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      1 year ago

      The guy that came up with with the acronym for unidentified flying object also wrote that it should pronounced you-fo but everyone spells it out because that is less confusing. So there is an example of the creator being ignored.