Things I've always wondered #1

How do you pronounce "wget"?

[j4mes]

How do you pronounce "wget"? In my head it's "wuh-get", but I've never actually said it out loud (doesn't come up in conversation much!)

I hope this isn't an obvious question :-)

[jatar_k]

I find there are 2 pronunciations

as you mentioned 'wuh-get' and also 'double u get' the sysadmins always seem to use the first

we code speak out loud all the time ;)

[iamlost]

Tech-speak is not actually meant to be spoken. It is a keyboarded language invented by paranoid introverts who blush easily and mumble when humans are present. Can you say adolescent?

Answer: pronounce wget as web-get.
It seems logical - the "w" does stand for "web".
Nice to save those two letters (and hyphen).

[monkeythumpa]

I have never heard wuh-get, it has always been pronounced "w" - get. For a while now. . .

Now for Treo (imagine a smilie over the "e") People pronounce it "Tree-o" but shouldn't the smilie make it "Trey-o"? I thought a dash over the "e" made it a hard "e" not a smilie.

[pmkpmk]

German tongues have it easier here. We pronounce it as "v-get" since the letter "w" is pronounced in German almost like the letter "v" in English.

Oh, if you ask yourselves how we pronounce "v"? Hmm... sounds something like "pfow" in English.

[httpwebwitch]

I haven't heard much codespeak recently, but at a previous job we often cha-modded stuff to su-su-seven (chmod 777) or "fuh-get" (fget) "fuh-sockopen" (fsockopen),

I've also heard "www.mysite.com" shortened to "wuh-wuh-dot-mysite-dot-com"

said quickly among web geeks, "HTTP" easily becomes "a-chit-a-pee"