How Do You Say with Matt Surabian

Welcome to How do you say?, where the pronunciations don’t matter and words are made up.

I am your host Pete Cheslock

This is a game where we learn the different ways to pronounce tech lingo that is often written and rarely spoken.
Turns out people have opinions on this. But spoiler alert – all pronunciations are valid.

Learn how these tech experts pronounce the following words, products, tools, and abbreviations!

/etc/ – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_filesystem#Conventional_directory_layout
AMI – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Machine_Image
k8s – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes
chmod – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chmod
curl – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL
fsck – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsck
HAProxy – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAProxy
/proc/ – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_filesystem#Conventional_directory_layout
NGINX – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx
SQL – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
systemctl – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd
SCSI – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI
www – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
sudo – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudo
URL – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL
/lib/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_filesystem#Conventional_directory_layout
CIDR – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing
epoch – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch
jwt – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_Web_Token
strace – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strace