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      c and h in my own language (hungarian) and own in english

      sounds something like

      pots-café-h-father-own (random words to illustrate the way the letters are pronounced)

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      I say it like “pwn”. As in, if I’m sitting here chown-ing your shit, you’re pretty much pwned.

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      I deconstruct all commands when used in spoken word, so I pronounce it “change ownership”. I also call ls, “list“ and cd “change directory”. For some reason this completely confuses and disorients everyone in the room.

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          Yeah the instant I wrote it I knew I’d get some comments lol. I know it’s “ch” + “own” but somewhere along the way my brain started pronouncing it rhyming with “clown” rather than “own” lol :p

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      I do, but that’s mostly because an old boss of mine did it, thought it was hilarious, and now I do too, because of the in joke

      Chown, rhymes with bone.

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      I do, but regarding pronunciations it’s S-A-T-A not Saytuh and I’ll die on that hill.

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          I must have heard “saata” somewhere because that’s my head-pronunciation, and it doesn’t match how I say data (dayta). Not sure I’ve ever said it out loud.

          Could be an “avoiding saying anything like ‘Satan’” kind of thing, not because of religion, but more to avoid lame jokes.

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            well “saata” is closer to the pronounciation of satan in finnish, “saatana”. Was it Linus you’ve heard?

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              Ha. No, I don’t think it was Linus, but it might have been someone else European. Really hard to be sure at this point. SATA has been around for a while.

              And I’ve unearthed a memory of the other, other pronunciation that I know I’ve heard: “serial ay-tee-ay”. Why make it an acronym when you can say one of the words and then the initials of the others!