As a technologist, there are a lot of words and acronyms we often only read or type out but don't say out loud (commands/services/etc). So, I asked a bunch of folks how they pronounce some of them and recorded the result. For example...
For example: "Epoch"
In computing, an epoch is a date and time from which a computer measures system time. Most computer systems determine time as a number representing the seconds removed from particular arbitrary date and time.
How do you pronounce it?
Top comments (9)
Fascinating! As I mentioned all these pronunciations are valid!
Now do ACL.
/ˈiːpɒk/
This is the way
iːpok
Jiff
E-Pock for me :)
Actually "epoch" derives from the Greek word "εποχή" which means period. If we take that into consideration the correct pronunciation would be /e.poˈç/.