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I don't personally do this, but many people in my family say the days of the week with "dee". Like "Sundee", "Mondee". I think it's charming, but one of their children said they were weird for saying it that way.
Also, as a programmer, there are some words that programmers use that are abbreviated which I refuse to pronounce the way that others pronounce them because I think it's weird, but virtually everybody pronounces them different to me.
For example, there is a common keyword in programming languages called "enum", and most people I know pronounce it as "EE-num", like it rhymes with "ME dumb". But "enum" is short for "enumeration", so I pronounce it as if it's the first two syllables of "enumeration", like "ee-NUUM". Although I think the normal pronunciation is weird, I don't say anything to people. I just pronounce it the way that I think it should be pronounced. But on multiple occasions, other programmers have called me out for it and asked why I pronounce it "wrong".
There are several other programming terms like this, but they don't immediately come to mind. Enum is the most common example.
One I can’t stand is pronouncing regex as “rej-ecks.” I’ve also heard Redis pronounced “red-iss” which also sounds gross to me.
But that's "regular expressions", which shortened is rej-ecks. How else would you say it? "Rejects"?
"reg-ecks" with a g sound as in "get", after all that is how "regular" is pronounced
I think they mean the first syllable is pronounced "reg" like in "regular", not "rej" like in "reject". I'm in the rej camp personally. Saying reg is some gif jif shit that feels wrong
So you pronounce GIF as “jiff?” That sounds totally more wrong to me. It’s “graphics” not “jraphics.”
Oh sorry I can see how you would take it that way in the context. No I pronounce it like everyone else did before the creator decided it was JIF, which feels wrong to me. I meant that sentiment is how I feel about saying "reg ecks"
That's what they want you to think so they can keep all the giraffe gifs to themselves.
It's the dumb thing about English where g can be like Gremline or like Giraffe. So hard g. The redis one I don't get through text, though .
Edit: should've refreshed before posting since this was already answered (I opened this tab last night)
Reggecks.
Fortunately, although "rej-ecks" is common, so is the correct pronunciation.
As for "red-iss", I think that may be a losing battle. Wikipedia even lists that as the correct pronunciation. I think the rules start to fall apart when it is a project name, and when it smooshes together multiple words.