Strange how such a mundane topic as correct pronunciation can get people’s tempers running high. You know what I’m talking about: Arguments about image formats and technologies can get heated really quickly once you’re talking about pronoun-, ugh, pronunc-, erm, p11n! :)
To add fuel to the fire, here’s a video from 1991 with Steve Jobs talking about S-Q-L databases – not “sequel” databases! At least for die-hard NeXT and Apple fans, that p11n issue should be sorted…
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If you agree with Steve, you could add subtitles and share that clip on social media as an animated JIF! With a PING fallback if you want to post it on Bluesky. Then again, the audio is the important part here, so maybe just export it to a woff file*…
*) “woff”? Yes, woff! Or how else would you pronounce “.wav”?!
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