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I recently wondered about the best way to pronounce commands of the `[...]ctl` family, which seem to get omitted from most of these lists I come across. I personally now use "cuttle", but am curious what others say (for example, Kubernetes [1] is one notable exception, search "cube control").

[1] https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGEL...

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I've always pronounced ctl as control, personally.

You're going to end up spelling it if someone doesn't know what you're talking about anyway, might as well say the unabbreviated version so at least it has some semantic meaning.

I say "C T L" as in "system C T L".

But I also capitalize command names like Ls so I'm probably out on my own here.

> But I also capitalize command names like Ls so I'm probably out on my own here.

Only in written correspondence I assume? Macs are the only system that would let you do that in actual use AFAIK (and if you want to break out of that habit I've got an OS to sell you ;)

How did you get into this habit though? Are you an old Lisper by chance?

Oops, that was unclear. I meant "capitalize the first letter of" and "in written correspondence".

I am not an old Lisper, but I am becoming a young-ish one.

I mostly hear the "cuttle" variant, but with the t/d ambiguity of a lot of american pronunciation it sounds more like "cuddle" to me, and I like that

I use "cuttle", but someone I know calls it kubec-tal (Q-beck-tal), which is the weirdest of all the variants.

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