One of the more amusing aspects of working with a new team is ironing out all the weirdnesses you don't have to deal with when working alone.

I remember being pretty surprised when I first heard somebody name a path out loud and pronounced the /usr directory in a way I wasn't used to hearing.

The Linode pronunciation guide:

/etc: Ett-see. This one was the interesting one to me at Linode. Before Linode I said "et cetera".
/sbin: Ess-bin. /bin is obviously "bin".
/tmp: Temp. tmpfs = "Temp eff-ess".
/usr: User, just like it sounds*.
/var: Varr (pirate "arr").
Linode - Linn - ode (I said "Lie-node" at my interview, though).
caker: Cake - urr.
tasaro: Tee - uh - sarr - oh.
mikegrb: Phil says this "mike gee - arr - bee". I say "Mike".
irgeek: Jay - mms.
pparadis: Pee - pair - uh - dee. Silent 's'.
restelow: Arr - ess - tuh - low.
jed: Aww - sum.
tychoish: I've always said "tie - co - ish", and I'm up for correction.
sschwertly: Stann the inn-turn.
dfinnerty: Dave - fin - urr - tee.
mwalling: Emm - wall - eeng. (Yes, we say his name out loud. He came up the other day at a smoke break due to his cat named Linode.)
urmom: Yerr mah-um.
fremont: Pop - you - lurr.
Absecon: ab - see - cunn. I said abs - uh - con and got looked at.

* Reminds me of this.

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Interesting...

The only major differences between my list and Linode's would be:

tasaro: taas-aar-o
jed: Miss-ter Smith
sschwertly: stan-the-man

Linode[TheCat] loves you too, Jed



I think you got your pronunciations switched. "mikegrb" is pronounced "Aww-sum", while "jed" is pronounced "loose-er"

Nope I think /usr is pronounced like [ooz-er]. As in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze.

Actually a pretty funny end to a work day.

Jeff

I call it Lie-node. Didn't even realize I was doing that.

Welcome to the club! We know that Linux rhymes with Linus, the kernel's author. He claims it's not, but we know the truth :)

So, you pronounce it lee-nuhcks?

I don't know if you guys watch Zero Punctuation at all -- if you don't, you're missing out.

This whole thread reminds me of probably one of the funniest things I've ever heard Yahtzee say during a review (caution: language), something along the lines of:

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