> The author pronounces it [aɡe̞] with a hard g, like GIF
Lol, or 'git' according to one of my more sensitive colleagues.
Lol, or 'git' according to one of my more sensitive colleagues.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/git#Etymology_1
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/git#Etymology_2
It'd be like naming your software fukr and then insisting "no no no, the R is pronounced 'are', not 'er'."
It certainly was when I heard it.
Having the rust port be "rage" only compounds the problem.
The author's rather Italian-looking name tends to suggest that he wouldn't view a hard G as a possibility for the word "age" either (and the pronunciation link specifically goes to a synthetic Italian pronunciation of the word "aghe"...), so something else is going on.
It's also the English word for rooster.