If that’s the case, I agree that it’s a bit strange.

But isn’t that exactly why it’s called loan words? In Swedish we’ve borrowed words like radio and nylon and we initially pronounced them as in English. But eventually we started to pronounce them as the spelling would dictate in Swedish (the English pronunciations would’ve been spelled rejdio and najlon). For toilet it’s the opposite. We borrowed toilette from French, but eventually altered the spelling to match the pronunciation: toalett.

I’ll grant you that once we have adapted and incorporated the words, we are no longer borrowing them. Maybe we should stop calling them loanwords at that point. But while they’re still new and don’t yet fit in, I would say that borrowing sounds about right.

On another note, I can’t understand why a people wouldn’t want to make every word work in their language. You completely lose the flow of speech when you have to pronounce something that doesn’t fit naturally into it, and you either come off as a pretentious douche or a stupid person.

Hmm, okay, it’s apparently debated. However, the only way I’ve learned it is that initialisms are words formed from initial letters of included words, and acronyms are initialisms pronounced as words. It seems like it varies by country as well.

Are there circles in which it’s NOT pronounced like that?

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Someone at work insisted the MVP emoji meant Minimum Viable Product. I get that the term exists, and that we use it, but it’s way more niche than Most Valuable Player, and it’s certainly no emoji.

I learned about a11y like a year ago, and thought it was 1337 speak for ally until I looked it up, and only then (like 20 years after first seeing it) did I realize what i18n meant.

It’s always been For The Win to me. Fuck the world seems to have been before my time.

Which I do.

I hear SQL way more than Sequel. Luckily, since I don’t like hearing it as sequel.

Other way around.

Yes! Imagine not being American, and Magic is the only thing you could ever associate MTG with.

I’ve literally never heard it any other way. O_O

I always pronounce all initialisms as words if even close to possible. I don’t care whether or not they were meant to. Till, fuhtfy, fuhmmuhl, wuhtf, and so on. Some I understand why others might say as individual letters, but others I have no clue because it doesn’t make sense to me at all. Why would you ever say double-u tee eff, which is two syllables longer than the actual words?

For years I had no idea Point of Sale was a thing, and always thought people were talking about systems they hated as pieces of shit.

WINE Is Not an Emulator

I read it as Opie Crust.

A lot of people on Reddit used to unironically claim that’s what it stood for. 🤦

Too bad they’re all pizzerias.

Someone said in another comment that 440 ml is the default multipack can for the UK and that can plus contents add up to 1 lb that way. I don’t know if this is true. I could see US beer imported via UK being a thing though.

Edit: And if you mean whether I would expect 470 ml over 500 ml, then no. 500 ml is very much the European standard can.