For programming languages, popularity is crucial. Making them easy to implement, having the compilers as widely available as possible, having the most number of developers pick up the language, etc. That's effectively the thesis of the famous "Worse is Better" essay [1].
As trivial as a name may seem, you're really shooting yourself in the foot if it's something that's awkward to say out loud in a lot of contexts. Workarounds, like pronouncing it differently (as suggested elsehwere in this thread) aren't good solutions, as they hamper communication. Unless the language is already very popular, how do you ensure that everyone else is familiar with the non-standard pronounciation?
There are countless startups whose names in English mean something else entirely in another language. For example "Cocu Social", a cooking startup, whose name in French would mean "gregarious cuckold".
Most French people seem to know English quite well, so I would expect they'd be aware of it. Not saying I know this is true for sure, though.
But they definitely knew that this pun was there.
Let’s also mention San Francisco’s Coit Tower, which always amuses the french tourists (coit = coitus)
Btw, why is it "pronUnciation", but "pronOUced". English is hard.
In Australian English, it is "pronOUNCiation"
BTW, in case there has been some confusion here, since the topic was how things were said, I have been assuming this is what the person I was replying to was talking about, not spelling.
Actually, this varies with dialect. Route can be pronounced either way: |ˈrüt| or |ˈrau̇t|
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/route
https://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_26...
Does he let you use git? (Git is a mild insult in the UK)