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Don't most people just pronounce it Eck-ma?

It should've been called AcmeScript. The association with Wile E. Coyote would've been fitting.

That’s actually the perfect name for it!

Since the association renamed itself to “Ecma International” in 1994, I believe we can just call it Eck-mah-script.

And it sounds like a skin condition.

Flaky when under pressure? Irritating results? Sites look and feel better without it?

Sounds appropriate to me.

It's a genuinely terrible name.

Maybe it should just be pronounced eck-ma-script so it's got the same number of syllables as ja-va-script.

It is pronounced like that, typically

I've only ever heard it pronounced as "EcmaScript" not E-C-M-A Script"