> that's what I meant to say
Ah, that makes sense. I thought you meant long 'i' as in extending the duration of the 'i' sound, like in 'beep' vs 'bip'.
Do you pronounce the vowel in /var as in "bar" or as in "bare"?
Also, for those who try to pronounce everything rather than spell them out, where does it end?
I now have a newly discovered, morbid interest in how such folks say path elements like "selinux", "httpd", and "pgsql"...
> Do you pronounce the vowel in /var as in "bar" or as in "bare"?
Ha, they're everywhere!
Perhaps the difference for you is that "bin" is already an English word with an official pronunciation.
Personally, I also use short-i for "lib," because I tend to pronounce shortenings of text as if they were words themselves.
Yep, that's what I meant to say with:
> … never noticed until I heard someone else say it with a long 'i' that that was obviously the logical pronunciation.
But maybe the sentence structure was too tortured for it to be clear what I was saying.
> Though I personally always use the short 'i'. I was going to justify that by saying it's the same as /usr/bin, but that's also short for binaries, so should also be an 'ai'.
Oh, shoot, even after I noticed the logical pronunciation of "lib" (long 'i') it never occurred to me that the same applied to "bin". I guess I just can't say any paths out loud any more.