Finally, I most definitely can’t stand PNG pronounced as ‘ping.’ It irritates my ears to no end.

cranial-bore Says:
June 21st, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Spelling something as GIF and trying to tell people it’s pronounced as jiff is like spelling your name as xlsdkfj but pronouncing it Bob. Pronunciations can’t just be fabricated at whim, we’re not animals.

But GIF isn’t spelled PHP then called jiff, it’s spelled GIF and then called ‘jiff,’ so a connection is plausible, even if it is wrong.
Pacoup Says:
June 22nd, 2009 at 2:19 pm
BTW, SQL has never been correctly pronounced “Sequel”. SQL is an acronym, not an abbreviation, thus it must be pronounced letter by letter: “S-Q-L”.
I think it came about because when you say ‘SQL’ over and over, it becomes hard to speak clearly. Saying ’sequel’ is much easier when you have to say it many times.

Mr G DVD – Doovd LOL! I’m gonna call ‘em that from now on! Hilarious!!

I used to say:

.html – Hot Metal
.shtml – Sheet Metal

Other wise you get into the whole:
DVD – Doovd
DHL – Dahul
PC – Puck
(nicked from Fonejacker btw) ;)

I’ve never said anything other than ‘adobee’.

In non technical…

That sort of reminds me of Porsche. I always cringe when the E (well, ‘ah’) is dropped off. When I hear people say it like Porsch, it is like nails on a chalkboard.

My dad can’t stand when people call BMWs beemers instead of bimmers.

and last but not least:

URL – earl

I think alot of the trouble arises because so many programmers are alone when they encounter these things and so it ends up however each individual is comfortable. It’s hard to change later…