--- Doug Ewell <dewell@...> wrote:

> Mark E. Shoulson <mark at kli dot org> wrote:
>
> > Mozilla rhymes with Godzilla, though the first
> > vowel is a long o.
>
> Then it doesn't really rhyme with Godzilla, does it?

I always pronounce it /gQdzIl@/ (which also doesn't
quite rhyme). I've heard it with /@U/ but that
sounds/feels to affected for me to use.

> > I always pronounce GIF as /gIf/, that is, with a
> > hard G, though pretty much everyone else in the
> > world says it /dZIf/, with a soft G, and indeed
> > that may even be somehow the "official"
> > pronunciation.
>
> I've read that it "should" be pronounced /dZIf/ with
> a soft G. I nod my head and say, "hmm, that's
> nice," and go on pronouncing it /gIf/ with a hard G.

Me too.

> PNG is ping.

I've read that it "should" be pronounced /pIN/. I nod
my head and say, "hmm, that's nice," and go on
pronouncing it /pi: en dZi:/.

I guess I have natural aversions to both prescribed
pronunciations and to pronuncing initialisms as words.

Andrew Dunbar.

> -Doug Ewell
> Fullerton, California
> http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
>
>
>

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