Plover is a free, open-source stenography engine

Re:Plover is a free, open-source stenography engine by madeofpalk on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @05:42AM (#27602598)

It's funny because I wouldn't have thought twice about how to pronounce it if it just never mentioned the rhyming thing, but now I can't stop saying plover, hover, lover. Plover, hover, lover.

I've never seen a title like "Redis (rhymes with "Candice") is an in-memory..."

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Re:Plover is a free, open-source stenography engine by wongarsu on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @06:36AM (#27602913)

But you have probably noticed that close to nobody pronounces debian correctly (deb-ian, like the names), or gif (whichever is right), or PNG (ping), or the people pronouncing dogecoin as dog-e-coin, etc.

Confusion about how to pronounce something is extremely common, due to most open source communication happening in written form, and English being a weird language where pronunciation and spelling seem mostly unrelated to each other.

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Re:Plover is a free, open-source stenography engine by 7952 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @07:13AM (#27603111)

Maybe we need to have a latin/binomial nomenclature like in species naming. So pluvialis apricaria instead of golden plover. mensa elephantus for PostgreSQL. mensa parvus for SQLite.

The purpose is to have an agreed name in all languages, and not worry much about pronounciation. Now what about Oracle...

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Re:Plover is a free, open-source stenography engine by chaosite on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:33AM (#27603711)

mensa pythia?

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Re:Plover is a free, open-source stenography engine by arthurcolle on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @11:40AM (#27605785)

mensa diabolica?

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