In 1998 I started a new job, and my boss pronounced "URL" as "earl". That threw me for a loop, had to fight my way through our first conversation before I figured out what he was saying.
I was mind-blown the first time I heard someone pronounce etc as "et-see".
et-see rolls off the tongue so much better than ee-tee-see that it makes perfect sense now.
Yep, that's what I meant to say with:
> … never noticed until I heard someone else say it with a long 'i' that that was obviously the logical pronunciation.
But maybe the sentence structure was too tortured for it to be clear what I was saying.
> Though I personally always use the short 'i'. I was going to justify that by saying it's the same as /usr/bin, but that's also short for binaries, so should also be an 'ai'.
Oh, shoot, even after I noticed the logical pronunciation of "lib" (long 'i') it never occurred to me that the same applied to "bin". I guess I just can't say any paths out loud any more.
Also, for those who try to pronounce everything rather than spell them out, where does it end?
I now have a newly discovered, morbid interest in how such folks say path elements like "selinux", "httpd", and "pgsql"...