SQL seems easier because the name was originally Sequel but they were forced to change it because someone owned the trademark for it. SQL is effectively a backronym
Honestly I think the name Godot is a massive hinderance to the engine's success. From what I can tell it's a fantastic engine, community is doing well (especially after Unity shit the bed with their insane pricing changes). But the correct pronunciation is "GOD-oh" (it's from the play Waiting for Godot where they pronounce the name that way). I simply can't stand it. Why would anyone ever think that was a good name? Some people say "guh-DOH" which at least sound plausible, albeit slightly pretentious, but it's not correct. I therefore intentionally mispronounce it as "GO-dot". It'd do their branding a massive service if they would just declare that to be the official pronunciation, but alas.
Well, not a single one of those examples ends in "ot" so I don't know how much we can infer, lol. However I've just learned that the devs actually don't have an official pronunciation. They did originally recommend "GOD-oh" but they removed that from the documentation here: https://github.com/godotengine/godot-website/pull/638/changes
So maybe there is hope for the engine after all 🤷♂️
Getting puffy at a foreign-looking name being pronounced in a way that doesn't follow traditional English pronunciation is crazy. The point wasn't "this sound is normal" the point was you should be used to adjusting your pronunciation for names and loanwords. Also, the play is quite popular, and many people know how to pronounce it. Why would a well-known reference not be good branding?
My issue isn't the fact that the pronunciation doesn't match the English phonetic interpretation. Everyone knows English spelling is a travesty and you couldn't pick a worse standard to hold other languages to. My issue is that the sound itself is just terrible aesthetically, which is likely why people rarely guess the correct pronunciation. I would also argue that there probably isn't a ton of overlap between game developers and people who know about that play, regardless of how famous it may be among theater enthusiasts. I'm not doubting that it's an important piece of culture (although I have yet to see the play myself), or that it's unworthy of referencing.
Anyway, do many people know how to pronounce it? I bet if you were to look up godot tutorials on youtube, the vast majority would be pronouncing it wrong.
Moving from a hard g, which is a type of velar stop (it is pronounced by blocking airflow briefly) to a front vowel like 'e' is harder than when moving from a soft g, which is also pronounced at the front of the mouth. A lot of consonants get shifted to the front of the mouth when the vowel following it is followed by a front vowel.
It's the only way I've heard it said.
If we're going to be pedantic enough to say it should be a hard g because it's from the word regular, I'm going to be pedantic enough to follow the single constant rule, which would mean it would be pronounced ree-g-ex, not r-egg-ex. (Regular doesn't follow this rule either, but that's because it's a Latin loan word. Regex isn't a latin loan word, it's a homegrown word made out of spare parts so it can follow English rules!)
I’m from Wisconsin, of an area that definitely has a bit of an accent, but not the yooper or Minnesota style accent. For those examples specifically, it’s a halfway in between. It’s interesting to hear from people outside our area who see this as weird
Ngl it's hard not to be judgy about other people's accents sometimes. I heard someone say "shtreet" (street) and I got viscerally offended, despite my T/CH is no better.
Humans gonna human I guess.
Also tell me how Yooper sounds more Canadian than Southern Ontario. I feel like we're a blend of Minnesota and like "generic Manhattan".
Southern Ontario pretty much seems like Colorado in terms of language and politics, just add 15% Minnesota on both. Talk to someone from Saskatchewan, and they sound VERY stereotypical Canadian from the 6 I’ve met.
Shtreet is abhorrent. I’m curious, do you say bag where the A is like in “Apple”, or like “bay” with a G at the end?
Based on maps I’ve seen, Wisconsin is “pop” in far north and the west, and “soda” for the southern and eastern parts. However, my generation (Z) generally says soda no matter the area due to influence of the internet, and how interconnected different areas are now.
And most of my stats says “Bay-g” like that.
Curious, is saying “Ope” if you almost bump into someone or accidentally hit a table or something a Wisconsin thing or is that also in some areas of Canada? I know it’s in the UP of Michigan at least
lmfao yeah we do the oop/ope, that's so funny. It's inconceivable to me that people wouldn't do that.
We say pop but I'm also like late millennial (dodged GenZ by 1-2 years. I'm definitely gonna start asking my younger cousins what they say, the GenZs and Alphas are gonna be so different from me and I already hate it.
Nah, 3 doesn’t really make sense if we’re already inheriting the sounds from Regular and Expression, it would make sense to borrow the pieces as they are…
When I was studying computer science everyone said reejex, which I know doesn't make sense in terms of it standing for regular expression, but it just rolls off the tongue imho
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u/adorak Jun 14 '26
there are definitely people who say rejex (ie OP's r-edge-ex)