Comment on The "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't.

• BlueLagoon@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pronounced “yiff”

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hiff, if you want to make up a Spanish pronunciation.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gyif

    Also doesn’t help that apparently it’s named after a brand of peanut butter (why) that is only available in the states and nowhere else on earth.

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      it’s named after a brand of peanut butter

      Not exactly; the word is an acronym which the creator then chose to pronounce like the peanut butter.

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