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Comment by leelin | Hacker News Reader

  Posterous (I learned the official way to pronounce it - "pastarus")

Actually, the two founders of Posterous pronounce their startup differently, unless one of them caved recently.

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it rhymes with preposterous

from: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=855744

It depends on if you use the American or British pronunciation of "pasta."

That has not been my experience. While no one here would correct you, I've never heard it pronounced otherwise except when discussing the pronunciation (which comes up a lot).

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