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I asked, because I would keep saying (li) is lee. and my teacher was like what? So I felt little awkward, but believe me i can never pronounce it like ... eel iee. like my teacher did. So I asked everyone just uses 'standard' pronunciation or just 'hacked' like me. For me it's easier to remember.

damn speaking of wordpress (WP) i am a really awkward kid in the class because I always pronounce vp i.e vp super cache.

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Most people probably have their own private words; it's hard to know what the "standard" pronounciations are if you're just reading text.

Another one I've thought of is that I always say url, not U.R.L. - didn't know you weren't "supposed" to. It's not as stupid-sounding as you might think: I'm not saying "Earl" all the time; it's more like the vowel in "her" than the vowel in "hair". That phonetic merger doesn't exist round here.

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