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Agreed. You're not the only one who thinks so:

"ECMAScript was always an unwanted trade name that sounds like a skin disease." - Brendan Eich [1]

1. https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2006-October/0...

In Germany, we pronounce it as one word.

Ecmascript and not E C M A script. Which makes it as easy to pronounce as JavaScript.

The complaint still holds though. Add "-osis" to get "ecmascriptosis", something that sounds more likely to be overheard in a hospital than at a Node meetup.

> E C M A script

Is anyone pronouncing it like that?

I propose we start a campaign to rename it EScript. I like the sound of that and we preserve the E for ECMA.

How about eek-script? That preserves the first two phonetics of ECMA and sounds about right.

EichScript?

Too close to Eichmann.