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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.

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”.