Doug Ewell wrote:

>Mark E. Shoulson <mark at kli dot org> wrote:
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>>Mozilla rhymes with Godzilla, though the first vowel is a long o.
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>Then it doesn't really rhyme with Godzilla, does it?
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Sure it does. "car" and "star" rhyme, and they don't share the same
start-consonant to the stressed syllable.

For the record, Mozilla to me is /mozIla/, with no d and an /o/ for the
initial vowel.

>>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.
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>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.
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I do pretty much the same. /dZIf/, as Michael Everson says, is a brand
of peanut butter (to me)

And I recently was describing to my students (Students of Hebrew, every
one) the pronunciation of the typesetting program TeX...

~mark