[PW] URL? Is Earl in the Trunk?

[Nichael Cramer]

GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido wrote:
>  I raise a somewhat frivolous question as we slide into Friday.
>How do you pronounce URL? Earl? Ural? Or as we do in the
>East, You -Are - El? Is pronunciation local? I have only heard Earl
>in or from the midwest.

Speaking as a computer/web-geek:
  - I've never heard *any* computer/web-geek. or anyone I considered 
knowledgeable about
    such things, pronounce it as anything other than "you-are-el", 
regardless of geographic location.
  - The only folks I've ever heard say "earl" (or some such) have 
been tv (or radio) announcers.

[I'm not trying to be snooty here, but every time I've heard someone 
pronounce URL
as "earl" what immediately jumps to mind are the --no doubt 
apocryphal-- stories of
Lawrence Welk introducing "A medley of well-loved songs from World 
War Eye", or the
high school student looking for a book about the famous militant 
black leader from
the 1960's "Malcolm the Tenth".]

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