A fun fact about PNG, the correct pronunciation is defined in the specification
> PNG is pronounced “ping”
See the end of Section 1 [0]
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> PNG is pronounced “ping”
See the end of Section 1 [0]
Not sure I'll bother to reprogram myself from “png”, “pung”, or “pee-enn-gee”.
On inanimate objects: Aluminium was first ratified by the IUPAC as aluminium⁰, with the agreement of its discoverer Sir Humphrey Davy¹, yet one huge nation calls it something else…
On people: nicknames are a thing, are you saying those are universally wrong? But yes, when a person tells me that they'd prefer their name pronounced a different way, or that they'd prefer a different name entirely, or that they don't like the nickname other use for them, you can bet your arse that I'll make the effort to use their preferred name+pronunciation in future.
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[0] Though it should be noted that aluminum was, a few years after, officially accepted as an alternate form.
[1] He initially called it aluminum in the first paper.