• nublug@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    we say jay-peg for jpeg, pee en gee for png, and ay tee em for atm. none of these are based on the pronunciation of the words they represent.

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      11 months ago

      Most of those are the way I commonly hear, except I’ve always heard PNG pronounced “ping”.