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[2ffat]

We're not the only ones who have a thing to say about pronunciation. Popular Woodworking has an article about the subject. BTW, it's pronounced "saw-PE-lee." My company sells the stuff. Khaya and makore are even worse.



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[SantaMufasa]

We certainly have terms in our IT industry that throw people for a loop, even if they are supposedly already experienced in our industry.[ul][li]I had an instructor in college, teaching assembly language, that kept saying that we needed to use a different "MEM-uh-nick" instead of pronouncing mnemonic as "nem-ON-ic". (I still hear people mispronouncing mnemonic [things dealing with memory] as "new-mon-ic", as though the word was spelled "pneumonic", which refers to things dealing with air.[/li])

[li]While teaching Oracle concepts several years ago (on a Unix-based system), a student told me that he was unable to "six" his file due to permission problems. I asked him to show me what he meant. At the prompt he typed in vi test.sql...Ah, yes, Roman numeral six...to edit a file.[/li][/ul]

Mufasa
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[KornGeek]

I had a boss that asked me if I had run a "tracer t". I had no idea what he was talking about until I saw him type "tracert".

At work, I waffle back and forth on the pronunciation of "SQL" ("Sequel" vs. "S.Q.L.").

 

[CajunCenturion]

Yes, Dave, that troubles all of us. It's the mnemonic plague.

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[ponoodle]

Maybe not the same thing, but I once worked with a woman who always said "alt, control, delete" because that was the order she hit each key.

 

[acl03]

I always pronounced that wood "sah-pay-lay". I'm a woodworker, but i could definitely be mistaken.

Irregardless (yes, on purpose) of it's pronunciation, it is a beautiful wood!

Thanks,
Andrew

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[mscallisto]

@2ffat

First let me say woodworking is one of my hobbies and I would love to work where you work, surrounded with exotic woods.

I didn't know sapele so I hunted it down and found that a bloke from the U.K. pronounces Sapele (from the the Hausa language of West Africa), a bit different than you; have a listen:

http://www.forvo.com/word/sapele/#ha

Sam

 

[2ffat]

A lot of woods have different pronunciations depending on what language is spoken, i.e. American or English. ;-)



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[mscallisto]

I agree and I realize that the link I provided is simply one persons pronunciation.

 

[SantaMufasa]

...("Sequel" vs. "S.Q.L.")

Or, as some of us "pigs" called it at Oracle University, "Squeal". <grin>

...mnemonic plague

HeHeHe.

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[Andrzejek]

When you learn how to write code for a piece of logic, you write it in ‘pseudo’ code, which sometimes I called: ‘psycho’ code

Have fun.

---- Andy

 

[hjgoldstein]

mnemonic plague

Been to California lately?
Plague-infected squirrel shuts Los Angeles park

Aspiring to mediocrity since 1957

 

[philhege]

Been to California lately?
Plague-infected squirrel shuts Los Angeles park

Oh yeah, California!


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[SantaMufasa]

Thanks, Phil, for the "heads-up" ! (My wife has been asking me to go back to California, and now I have a good reason to prevent us from going. <grin>)

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