It sounds so natural that I immediately started thinking I had actually been saying it wrong all these years.
I think I'm going to adopt this new pronounciation.
pronunciation*
(it's one of few weird words that change spelling when you add a suffix, such as fridge/refrigerator)
This is actually how you say it in Russian. Try Google Translate.
fwiw, it's the way everyone in Russia pronounces it
Yup. I thought it was part if the joke (that in a few generations, we might pronounce old language names differently).
How do you usually pronounce it?
Many people from Europe do that. It does sound cooler.
Since JavaScript and Java have almost nothing in common, I think that's a very reasonable pronunciation. The words look similar, but have very different functional meaning.