And those who say e-num vs. those who say e-noom.

I only recently started pronouncing "sub-version" "subversion". http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn-committers/trunk/sounds/pronunciation/index.html

Dont forget these:

Gif vs Jif (like the penut butter)

Measure (like pleasure) vs Maiser (like Phaser)

Toople  vs Tuple

YAGNI the other syllable - It's gwid!

And the good developers *know* it's pronounced gwid, jif, toopl, e-num.

;)

Actually, I'm a poor reference for pronounciation. I used to pronounce "Yahoo" as "Ya-hoo" ("a" as in cat) rather than "Yah-hoo" (a as in father).

var (varr) vs. (vare)

char (as in charcoal) vs. (care)

PNG (spelled out) vs. (ping)

I say gif as "jif." I also punch people who pronounce URL as "Earl."

Sequel vs. S-Q-L

cash vs. cash-ay

How about those that say it as G-U-I-D? :P

so there are three types of developers in the world...

For me:

* it's goo-id. I've heard some say gwid, but I think that's just wrong.

* "jif", not "gu-if".

* "URL" not "Earl" (funny).

* "ch-ar" not "car" (or "care", or "truck" or volkswagon)

* "cash" not "cash-eh" (I'm Canadian, same as "porshe" not "porsch-a")

* "enum" not anything else (never heard enoom)

Also I say "iteration" while a guy at our office keeps saying "eyeteration". Drives me freakin' nuts.

Canuck's don't say eye-teration - but other anglo subjects of the Common Wealth do... and rather coarse ones at that.

pot-8-o vs pa-tart-a?

Let's call the whole thing off

The difference pronounciation of cache & schedule gets me. I'm a kiwi who listens to American webcasts, but I work in the UK.

So I get a little teased when I say 'Caysh' instead of 'Cash' (for cache).

I've learnt to drop the hard c for schedule though... :-)

Goo-id is an attempt at using the GUI as the root of the word, which isn't really a word but a pronounced acronym.

However, the word Guid does actually appear in the english language as part of the word Languid.  Pronounced \LANG-gwid\.  So by prescedence the goo-id people are mis-pronouncing the word.

Let's not forget the R in Wash for you country folk (warsh).

For enum (which some are asserting is pernounced with a num as in number), it should be pronounced enoom, as it is an abbreviation of the word Enumeration or Enumerate, and saying those with a hard Num just sounds silly.

This one surprises me because unlike the others, which are made up, enum is actually an abbreviation of a bigger word so there really isn't any squishiness.

Lin-ooks vs ly-nux

Inventors of GIF format (Compuserve) say: "guh-iff", not juh-iff.  I'll go with them.

Vista versus Veesta

How about GUID as GUI-D.  like "gooey" of GUI and "dee" of D.

It is fun because you can ryhme it with Mike D when making nerd rap.

I gots my sorted gooey dees

like rhymes from mike dees

;)

For hard vs. soft pronounciation of GIF, I always argue that the G stands for Graphic (as in Graphics Interchange Format).  The G in Graphic is hard.  Hence, Guh-IF, not Juh-IF.

:o)

MGROVES:

From Wikipedia:

According to the creator of the "GIF" format, Steve Wilhite, the pronunciation is with a soft "g" and the acronym is pronounced like the peanut butter brand, Jif. To fellow employees of CompuServe he would often say "Choosy developers choose GIF", spinning off of the historically popular peanut butter commercial. This pronunciation was also identified by CompuServe in their documentation of a graphics display program called CompuShow. In the documentation for version 8.33 in the FAQ section, it states:[2]

   The GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), pronounced "JIF", was designed by CompuServe and the official specification released in June of 1987.

My goodness, there are some bass akwards people in these comments...

"care" not "char" because char is an abbreviation of character.. and if you were to remove "acter" from "character" you get the sound "care"... Very simple...

Same with GIF, not JIF.. GIF stands for Graphical Interchange Format (something like that).. not Jaffical Interchange Format...

Think about it, people..

I still will say "JIF" not "GIF" even if the "G" is for Graphical. As for eye-teration, that's insane. It was the first time I heard it and I just cringe when he says it.

As for "shedule" vs "skedule", I say "skedule". Again I hear people say "shed" instead of "sked" and it irks me. It just sounds wrong to me.

Now don't get me started on the whole tomateo/tomato thing.

Wow, I thought I was being critiqued on my skills as a developer, not my vocabulary. No wonder I can't get those really high paying gigs (could I abbreviate gigs as GB, since most people refer to storage size like 250GB as two hundred and fifty gigs). Sheesh. I need to spend more time learning how to pronounce acronyms instead of learning how to write good solid code.

There's also the word "Guib" (the BushBuck: Antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns) which is pronuounced 'gwib'

Who cares? I'm with Alex: it's a "Global YOO-nique Identifier" hence GOO-id.

And you probably want to know what the hell a Guib is: http://images.google.co.il/images?svnum=10&hl=iw&lr=&q=guib

For the record, the correct way is :-)

GUID - Goo-id

enum - e-num

char - char (not car)

Gif not jif

schedule - shedule obviously... let's remember people, the English invented the language, take heed.

All the other ones form the comments above that did not make my shortlist are for the wtf log. "Eyeteration"? WTF... Now I see where Eyeraq (Iraq=E-raq) comes from when I hear it on American news channels :)

How about "router" or"route"? Here it is spoken like: soup, you, through, pour, youth, gourmet, would/could/should, tour... basically the same as if it was "rooter". On that side of the pond it is said like [edited to avoid cringing]