On 2017-09-13 14:33, leam hall wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 8:28 AM, Stefan Ram <r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > >> I presume that "tkinter" is intended to be pronounced >> "logically": >> >> T K inter (tee kay inter /ti keI In t%/) >> >> . But it would be faster to pronounce it >> >> T kinter (tee kinter /ti kIn t%/) >> >> . So far I've only ever read it, never heard it. >> But while I am aware that the logical pronunciation should >> be the correct one, I actually like the faster one. >> >> > I heard a speaker mention GvR by name and it took me a bit, and IRC, to > find out the Dutch pronunciation is different from the American. I've seen > his name lots, hadn't heard it.
I found it very distressing the first time I heard some American pronounce Guido something along the lines of "GoowEEdough"... Pronouncing the BDFL's name the Italian way is reasonable; pronouncing the "u" is not. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
