Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: GNU Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 11:13:43 -0800 Organization: A place where nothing fits quite right Lines: 12 Message-ID: <20260303111343.00000572@gmail.com> References: <10o629v$1qssb$1@dont-email.me> <10o6emj$1uql3$5@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:13:49 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b213fabce60ed889bd5295e08d41a2a4"; logging-data="2388309"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18y9D4z7jSoCL+dLfTxOwGZQ74ox1WXK1U=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:jx4p9ER5KD1Js8lsX/JB1TGo86c= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:82356 On 3 Mar 2026 18:50:56 GMT rbowman wrote: > We had a programmer who would talk about passing pair o' meters to a > function. He was self-taught and may have hit on the pronunciation > but I think he also did it to upset another programmer. Oh, that's an interesting one. "Para-meter" makes perfect sense from an etymological standpoint, but I've never heard anyone say that IRL vs. "pa-RAM-eter." Wiktionary suggests that it might be a known pronunciat- ion in Indian/South Asian English, though.