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[โ€“] HatchetHaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This is a jem of a response, but by jeneralizing pronunciations of acronyms only by the way they are spelt, you are opening a jigantic can of worms on etymology and linguistics.

The jist of it is that English is a weird language, jenerally descriptive, and there can be many correct answers to the same pronunciation problem.

[โ€“] frazorth@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

jigantic

I read that as Jig-antic. I would have to turn it into jygantik for it to sound the same.