Hacker News Reader

Hacker News

Comment by nevster | Hacker News Reader

Full thread

nevster

Now there's a url I haven't seen in a loooong time. A long time.

Interesting it says it's "Pronounced vee-eye". Everyone I know just pronounces it vai.

View on HN

Funny, I've never ever heard it pronounced anything but "vee-eye"

Now oddly, VIM is "vim", not "vee-eye-emm". Unless there are those that do spell it out.

I mainly only ever heard/said vee-eye, then somewhere along the way I came across vai (by the younguns mostly). Now I'm all mucked up and ending saying it either way when I only really want to say vee-eye

Vim happens to be a real word, which I guess makes it easier to pronounce as such.

> Everyone I know just pronounces it vai.

No men allowed in town! </botw>

Jokes aside, am I the only person who's only ever pronounced it vee? I don't really interact with anyone else who uses it in person, so I've only ever really seen it in text.

Haha. Ah yes, the rare third pronunciation! I’ve honestly never heard ‘via’ or ‘vee’. ‘Vee-eye’ is most certainly the correct way, as any old timer will tell you :)

Thus I've learned today. It makes sense now that I think about it, along with ls, rm, cp etc.

I just never put two and two together, but at least now I know :)

Heh, like a lot of things in programming, there are always multiple camps on pronunciations. I always heard vee-eye from the senior dev I started with. Sounds like a lot of folk do say ‘via’ though. You should start the ‘vee’ camp and see if it sticks :)

Perhaps I will, might be fun.

Just don't pronounce it "six"

Or, as a Roman citizen would, “sex”.

No, I'm right there with you. I'm young enough (which is saying increasingly less) to have encountered vim and then vi, rather than the other way around. Vee came as the most natural way of pronouncing vim without the M.

That's exactly what happened with me, I wonder if that's where the pronunciation will end up over time.

I just pronounce it as "vi", not "vee-eye", but simply: vi. :D That last "i" is not "eye" either.

The letter "v" is the same as the letter "v" in verbose (I think), and the letter "i" is the same as the letter "i" in "instead".

I can confirm that Bill Joy pronounced it "vee-eye". No one seems to be confused by the "vai" pronunciation, though, so whatever.

I went a long time without seeing links to sourceforge, but more recently it's been popping up a lot (because I've been searching for older titles a lot).

Many projects never migrated elsewhere, including at least some still under development.

They all moved to gee-eye-tee Hub

I’ve only ever seen “vai” recognized as a sort of anti-shibboleth identifying newbies, who are then corrected.

And it's not like I'm that young. I started using it in 1989 at uni.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com