<story><title>A new Curl logo</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/05/27/a-new-curl-logo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AnkhMorporkian</author><text>That reminds me that I had been using sudo for close to 15 years before I realized that it was a combination of &amp;#x27;su&amp;#x27; and &amp;#x27;do.&amp;#x27; I&amp;#x27;m still not sure if it&amp;#x27;s properly pronounced &amp;#x27;pseudo&amp;#x27; or &amp;#x27;sue-doo&amp;#x27;, but it really blew my mind once I figured out the name.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Changed &amp;#x27;sue-do&amp;#x27; to &amp;#x27;sue-doo&amp;#x27; to make it less ambiguous.</text></item><item><author>mrow84</author><text>That was too traumatic to contemplate, so I referred to the FAQ and found relief in section 1.1:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We pronounce curl and cURL with an initial k sound: [kurl].&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;They do, however, note that the &amp;quot;fact it can also be pronounced &amp;#x27;see URL&amp;#x27; also helped&amp;quot; [to choose the name].</text></item><item><author>8ig8</author><text>I just realized after all these years, I think I&amp;#x27;ve been saying the name wrong.&lt;p&gt;In my head, I say &amp;quot;curl&amp;quot; as in curly hair. It&amp;#x27;s really &amp;quot;see-url&amp;quot;!? I think it&amp;#x27;s too late for my brain to correct that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hsod</author><text>I know it&amp;#x27;s not actually true, but I choose to believe that &amp;quot;su&amp;quot; stands for superuser and &amp;quot;sudo&amp;quot; is a witty pun which means both &amp;quot;superuser do&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;pseudo&amp;quot; because you&amp;#x27;re pretending to be a superuser.</text></comment>
<story><title>A new Curl logo</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/05/27/a-new-curl-logo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AnkhMorporkian</author><text>That reminds me that I had been using sudo for close to 15 years before I realized that it was a combination of &amp;#x27;su&amp;#x27; and &amp;#x27;do.&amp;#x27; I&amp;#x27;m still not sure if it&amp;#x27;s properly pronounced &amp;#x27;pseudo&amp;#x27; or &amp;#x27;sue-doo&amp;#x27;, but it really blew my mind once I figured out the name.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Changed &amp;#x27;sue-do&amp;#x27; to &amp;#x27;sue-doo&amp;#x27; to make it less ambiguous.</text></item><item><author>mrow84</author><text>That was too traumatic to contemplate, so I referred to the FAQ and found relief in section 1.1:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We pronounce curl and cURL with an initial k sound: [kurl].&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;They do, however, note that the &amp;quot;fact it can also be pronounced &amp;#x27;see URL&amp;#x27; also helped&amp;quot; [to choose the name].</text></item><item><author>8ig8</author><text>I just realized after all these years, I think I&amp;#x27;ve been saying the name wrong.&lt;p&gt;In my head, I say &amp;quot;curl&amp;quot; as in curly hair. It&amp;#x27;s really &amp;quot;see-url&amp;quot;!? I think it&amp;#x27;s too late for my brain to correct that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tetraodonpuffer</author><text>in the days of yore when I learned to program in basic before learning English I pronounced goto with the second o rhyming with the first one, it embarassignly also took some time after learning English to figure out that goto was &amp;quot;go to&amp;quot; as my brain had made the programming association and wasn&amp;#x27;t treating it as a language construct at all...&lt;p&gt;Speaking about sudo, learned that before living in an English speaking country, so everybody pronounced rhyming with su-go (say) not su-do and I still pronounce it that way (which I guess it&amp;#x27;s wrong!)&lt;p&gt;ah, the joys of learning English as a written language first, even now after living in North America for nearly 20 years occasionally I find words I completely mispronounce due to having learned them from books</text></comment>