{"id":524,"date":"2009-02-24T14:27:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T13:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=524"},"modified":"2009-02-24T15:14:49","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T14:14:49","slug":"saying-lib-out-loud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2009\/02\/24\/saying-lib-out-loud\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying lib out loud"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not being a native English speaker, I’ve always pronounced libcurl<\/a> with a ‘lib’ part as if it was part of ‘liberty’, and ‘curl’ with a K sound and ending with ‘earl’. I don’t know of any Swedes who would not<\/strong> pronounce ‘lib’ like that, but when speaking Swedish we’re of course highly influenced by other things so it’s not really relevant.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until I got on FLOSS Weekly<\/a> that I fully realized that some English speakers would actually pronounce the ‘lib’ part as the first syllable of ‘library’ and that does make sense considering lib is short for library.<\/p>\n

But libcurl is just a smaller player here. How do you English speakers pronounce libc? libxml? libgcc?<\/p>\n

And yes, this is another one of those really important issues in life. Almost<\/em> as important as how to close parenthetical expressions with emoticons<\/a>!<\/p>\n


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Not being a native English speaker, I’ve always pronounced libcurl with a ‘lib’ part as if it was part of ‘liberty’, and ‘curl’ with a K sound and ending with ‘earl’. I don’t know of any Swedes who would not pronounce ‘lib’ like that, but when speaking Swedish we’re of course highly influenced by other … Continue reading Saying lib out loud<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,255,114],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curl","tag-curl-and-libcurl","tag-english","tag-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}