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

• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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