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Title: "URL" Pronunciation?
Post by: Xairbusdriver on August 05, 2021, 01:33:27 PM

Geeky answers (https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/217712/how-do-you-pronounce-url)

Title: Re: "URL" Pronunciation?
Post by: kimmer on August 05, 2021, 08:24:22 PM

Earl was my grandpa, and he sure wasn't a web site. ;)

Title: Re: "URL" Pronunciation?
Post by: krissel on August 06, 2021, 01:37:34 AM

Reminds me of a workshop I attended many years ago. When the instructor pronounced PRAM as one word, like the boat, I cringed. I didn't trust anything he said after that.

Title: Re: "URL" Pronunciation?
Post by: jchuzi on August 06, 2021, 06:03:06 AM

When I was growing up in Brooklyn, "earl" was what you used to lubricate your car. "Oily" meant that you showed up ahead of time.

In a (probably) apocryphal story, the great pitcher Waite Hoyt was hit by a line drive. He fell to the ground and the announcer said, in perfect Brooklynese, "Hurt's hoit!"

Title: Re: "URL" Pronunciation?
Post by: Highmac on August 06, 2021, 09:39:39 AM

I don't recall ever hearing any other way than "you-ar-ell".


Got some good smiles from earlier posts  :clap:

Title: Re: "URL" Pronunciation?
Post by: Xairbusdriver on August 06, 2021, 10:25:21 AM

The wife of local couple who still support Apple ][ hardware is the only person I've ever heard use the "name" form of the noun. During one of our User Group meetings, she used that pronunciation and immediately got questions about who "Earl" was! We 'talk funny' down this way, but I ain't never herd no one sayit thet way!! You'all take care, now!! :yahoo: :laughhard: