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Is it really pronounced "ee-dee"? Here I've been pronouncing it all the time like it was some zany protagonist in a 90's cartoon show!

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Yes, Brian Kernighan said it's pronounced "ee-dee": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfOnGZUZDk

...and that never made any sense to me. Because you don't pronounce "sed" as "ess-ee-dee". So if you pronounce "sed" as "said", you must surely pronounce "ed" as "ed".

The reason is that it's a descendant of QED — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QED_(text_editor)

there is also that talking horse which even predates the editor

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