Some style guides treat CLI as an initialism, which just means that people tend to pronounce the letters individually.
How do you pronounce CLI?
Some style guides treat CLI as an initialism, which just means that people tend to pronounce the letters individually.
How do you pronounce CLI?
I have a theory that the french, and americans share a love of taking acronyms/initialisms and finding a way to "pronounce" them. French company/organisational names appear to be chosen to be "pronouncable initialisms" such as IRCAM or INRIA. Australia has the C-S-I-R-O and you can say SI-Rho and some do. But french and americans definitely do this more. There's an ICANN (pronounced I-Can) body called the RSSAC which is AR-SACK. and SSAC which is SEC-SAC. Some initialisms defeat this. the I-E-T-F and the I-E-S-G and the I-A-B for instance. But I-ana is definitely pronounced as an I-word.
It's Jif btw.
Nobody says "sea, but bigger" for C++ and it wasn't called Cplus.
I think I've even overheard M-O-D for mod(ification).
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sunscream89•5mo ago
Like the new kid renaming the fork the bork, just being cute and all.
Cut it out.