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Some idle words from a passer-by: It would have been good if this project had a pronounceable name.

"To Google" has entered the English lexicon as a verb, but I don't think anybody will ever say they "mwmbled" something.

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It's pronounced "mumble". I live in Mumbles, which is spelt Mwmbwls in Welsh.

Nice, but still not very intuitive nor common for the grand public.

Spelling it “mumble” wouldn’t be accurately pronounceable for most of the world, and billions couldn’t even read the letters.

I get your point but I think we should normalise things that don’t come completely naturally for English speakers.

Mumble is already a group talk protocol. http://mumble.info

If it took off we all might start swapping e with w as a nod to our preferred search engine.

In the early web 2, it was very in for things to be spelled unpronounceably. For the life of me I can only remember Twittr, but I wanna say Spotify also had an unreadable name in the early days.

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