How do you personally pronounce "lib"?

[zenie@piaille.fr]

@chillicampari both library and liberté have ee sounds in french.

[chillicampari@layer8.space]

@Zenie thank you! Yes, it is different in French and I wish I had remembered that when making the poll.
When I say "Libre software" I think I always pronounce it "leeb".

[chillicampari@layer8.space]

I pronounce it like "library" (US pronounciation, long "i"). That is how we pronounced it at the workplace I was at when I first started programming (mid-90's, California) and it stuck.

[chillicampari@layer8.space]

@kura like "library".

[mfeilner@mastodon.social]

@chillicampari but you also say /ɡɪf/ when its /ˈdʒɪf/ ...

[chillicampari@layer8.space]

@mfeilner do you say "graphics" like "jraphics"? :p

[mjj@mstdn.dk]

@chillicampari @mfeilner I believe your mean grab-hicks.

[mfeilner@mastodon.social]

@mjj:

@chillicampari never believes me. The plural of moose should be meese, like goose and geese. But she opposes. Violently. Loudly. Says ugly things like "Markus."

[mfeilner@mastodon.social]

@mjj @chillicampari one moose, two meese

seems logical and legit.

[chillicampari@layer8.space]

@mjj I like that and need to remember for the next time I say it. @mfeilner

[chillicampari@layer8.space]

@mfeilner it does seem logical and legit, but it's not a thing @mjj

[benjamingeer@piaille.fr]

@chillicampari Could you please do the same poll for “sudo”? Do people pronounce it like “pseudo” or like “Sue do”?

[chillicampari@layer8.space]

@benjamingeer that's a really good one! You should make it (and the poll and linux hashtags are good with that) and I'll boost it.

(edit- whoops, that was the "poll" hashtag that I meant, not "poo" hashtag. I don't know what you would get back with that)

[benjamingeer@piaille.fr]

@chillicampari Done! I was tempted for a moment to try the poo hashtag. 😄

[chillicampari@layer8.space]

@benjamingeer 😄

[zenie@piaille.fr]

@chillicampari
Yea. It's not just french either. Lots of languages have an I that sounds like ee.

I think most people understood you. But it did certainly make me think about it.

[elricofmelnibone@mastodon.social]

@mfeilner I've been saying this for decades. At least now there are two of us!

[workshopshed@mastodon.scot]

@chillicampari it makes no sense even though I knew it was short for libraries

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@chillicampari @mfeilner @mjj we can make it a thing though.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@chillicampari

I use lib a in liberty because I'm not a native English speaker and in my language lib only has one pronunciation 8-D