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I have a somewhat off-topic question I've been wondering about... How do you pronounce "reitit"? I've been considering giving a talk on it at my local clojure group, so I should probably learn how to actually say the word!

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In my brain I usually say re-it-it, but sometimes I think "rye-tit" which makes me laugh and definitely seems wrong.

Raitit (rye-tit) is a Finnish word too: the plural of "a lone village road splitting the village in half".

Would make a nice library name. Wonder if Metosin takes requests...

It's more like "ray-tit". A colleague at Metosin came up with a good alternative: "rate it!" Used in sentence like "I reitit 5 out of 5!"

It's a Finnish word. Google Translate's text-to-speech is pretty decent - click the speaker icon on the left: https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=fi&t...

Thank you!

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