[PW] URL? Is Earl in the Trunk?

[Chris Corston]

I just remembered. There was a list member here  (at least when it was 
Stumpers) who used to have a sig. line : "Duchess of URLs" - which only 
works with the "earl" pronunciation.  I always got a chuckle from that sig. 
line.

Chris Corston
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dayle Henshel" <dayleh at sprynet.com>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [PW] URL? Is Earl in the Trunk?


>
> I've been hanging out in NYC tech circles (website designers, programmers, 
> writers, graphics people) for more than ten years, and most of the techies 
> I know refer to it as an 'earl' amongst themselves - but use U. R. L. when 
> talking to clients or others not quite so familiar with the jargon. When I 
> first heard a web address refered to as an 'earl' it made me cringe, but I 
> got used to it quite quickly. It's second nature now, and I have to 
> remember to use web address or U.R.L. when talking to my mother or one of 
> my non-techie sisters (one's a techie of a sort herself...) or friends.
>
> Although it's often not necessary, I will also sometimes use the 'dub dub 
> dub' abbreviation when providing a URL to someone, just to be sure they 
> don't forget - since *some* URLs don't, in fact, use the www. prefix, and 
> some people need or want to be reminded, in any case.
>
> dayle
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Nichael Cramer <nichael at sover.net>
>>>
>>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".]
>>
>>N
>>
>>
>
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