Comment by djhaskin987 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by djhaskin987 | Hacker News Reader

> One common criticism we’ve heard since we started Pijul a few years ago was about the name. I came up with that name, but to be honest, I was more interested in getting stuff to work (which was challenging enough) than in thinking about names at that time.

Can someone help me find a more flattering way to pronounce this project? Any way I slice it it sounds awful in English.

    - PEE - HOOL
    - PEE - HOLE
    - PIE - HOLE
    - PEE - JEWEL
    - PIE - JEWEL

Hearing nothing, probably gonna have to stick with "pie jewel".

The author seems to be referencing a project of theirs with a Finnish name, so perhaps my intuition as a native Finnish speaker can help. In Finnish you’d likely pronounce pijul [pi-jul]. If I were to pronounce the word ”in English” starting from that basis, the smallest change is, I think, to make it [pi-zhul]. That is, ”pee-jewel” but with short vocals instead of long ones for both words.

Without reference to the source language, the most native rendering of this based on spelling definitely has short vowel sounds. It takes the vowel sounds of “sit ghoul”

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