• 9point6@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I feel like this one is relatively uncontroversial

      URL pronounced as “earl” however? I’ll spend all of my remaining energy in life ensuring the person saying it is stapled to the bottom of the Mariana trench with rebar

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        2 months ago

        Lots of people do, and it makes no sense.

        How do you pronounce “J”?

        How do you pronounce “son”?

        Now put them together.

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            2 months ago

            Sure, that explains why people pronounce it that way now. What I’m wondering is why people started pronouncing it that way in the first place. When I see the letters JSON, my brain parses it as J-SON. It’s even a common first name ffs.

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              2 months ago

              I couldn’t say. There is an older guy in my group who calls it “Jason”. Also we have 2 guys on my team named Jason and the back end jason now goes by J-Sahn. I have always read it j sahn and I have no idea why.

        • Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club
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          2 months ago

          LOL! I wouldn’t pronounce “J son” like Jason, either!

          “Son” is pronounced “sun”. Jason is pronounced Jay-sin.

          “Jay-sahn” makes sense because it’s how I pronounce it. Also, I’ve had coworkers named Jason, and I want to be able to say “Use JSON” without it sounding like I’m saying “Use Jason”.