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BS: How do you pronounce URL?
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Subject: How do you pronounce URL? From: Zebedee Date: 29 Oct 00 - 10:56 AM Hi, I've always thought that it was U.R.L. (three distinct letters) Recently, I heard people refer to 'urls' (earls). I hate that, sounds as if they're about to be sick... Such a relatively new term probably doesn't have a received prononciation, but I really hope my way is right! Zeb |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: catspaw49 Date: 29 Oct 00 - 11:07 AM Is this something that keeps you up at night? Feel free to pronounce it anyway you like.......perhaps, "yu-AR-rul." If it makes you happy, call it jablonski........and if it doesn't work, blame it on Windows or something. Spaw
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: Zebedee Date: 29 Oct 00 - 11:29 AM Women, beer and work keep me up all night, but people asking me for 'earls' annoy me. Maybe I'm just a miserable git. (I don't like fireworks either) Zeb |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: Jon Freeman Date: 29 Oct 00 - 11:49 AM zeb, I'd go for You Are El. I am not sure that I am right on this but I think that there is a differcence between what is intended as an acronym and what is just a straight abbreviation and I believe that URL is intended as an abbreviation. Whatever, I would love to know why someone decided to call it a Universal Resource Locator (I think) in the first place. Jon |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: Zebedee Date: 29 Oct 00 - 11:58 AM Jon, I don't have the answer, but I think it's a very reasonable name: Universal - can be accessed by any computer Resource - gives you information Locator - tells you where it is I'd be curious too... to know of it's origin... Zeb |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: Amos Date: 29 Oct 00 - 12:23 PM The term is pronounced as a 3-syllable word "Yew-ahr-ell", and was coined by the man who developed the HTTP browser technology while working for the CERN in Zurich, Tim ... Tim.. dang, forgot his last name! A search for the history of the Internet will bring his name up. Amos |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: Áine Date: 29 Oct 00 - 12:24 PM I don't know about anybody else; but, I'm calling it a JABLONSKI from now on! ;-) -- Áine |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: Zebedee Date: 29 Oct 00 - 12:25 PM Tim Berners Lee, I presume? (Mr Livingstone) |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: Amos Date: 29 Oct 00 - 12:32 PM Exactly. No Jablonski -- given the legance he brought to the world, and the extent to which we as Mudcatters depend on his brilliant innovation, we'd be respectful to carry his naming convention for'd. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: Amos Date: 29 Oct 00 - 12:36 PM duplicate message deleted by elf |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: Allan C. Date: 29 Oct 00 - 12:38 PM Out here in the West Virginia "flatlands" it is known as Yew Our Ail. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: Clinton Hammond2 Date: 29 Oct 00 - 01:02 PM Just don't call them "clicky thingys" or anything else that childish... {~` |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: Jon Freeman Date: 29 Oct 00 - 01:16 PM ... but I like being called a clicky thing Jon |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: Mrrzy Date: 29 Oct 00 - 01:38 PM I pronounce it Your'll. Most folks around here pronounce it kinda like Allan C's neighbors. But I like Jablonski best! |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: JTT Date: 30 Oct 00 - 01:43 PM Techies normally say yew are ell, and non-techies say earl. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: mousethief Date: 30 Oct 00 - 02:00 PM What's wrong with clicky? People have always made homey nicknames for technical things. Probably in the 1950's the geeks were saying, "Just don't call it a teevee or telly or something childish like that." In the early 19th century somebody said, "Just don't call it a piano or something childish like that." Must you insult things you disagree with? Does this give you a feeling of superiority? How childish is that?
feeling grumpy, |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: Clinton Hammond2 Date: 30 Oct 00 - 04:22 PM mousethief... It's called an opinion... I'm sure you know all to well what an opinion is... But it's got nothing at all to do with you... don't take it personal :-| |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: Bernard Date: 30 Oct 00 - 04:25 PM Bazonka! |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: mousethief Date: 30 Oct 00 - 04:51 PM If I say "you're a fuckhead" that's an opinion too, but that doesn't mean it's not insulting. My question stands.
Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: Clinton Hammond2 Date: 30 Oct 00 - 06:13 PM You can call me what you want to MT, and I'll give it the same attention I give every other strangers opinion... Not worth a hill of beans one way or the other to me... Certainly not enough worth to be insulted by... {~` |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: mousethief Date: 30 Oct 00 - 06:20 PM I didn't say I thought you were a f---head. I said IF I called you one it would be an opinion, albeit an insulting one. Never mind. If you wish to believe that opinions are never insulting, be my guest.
Alex |
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Subject: Serious Thread Creep... Sorry... From: Clinton Hammond2 Date: 30 Oct 00 - 06:26 PM Ya... that'd be my opinion eh! And I didn't say you DID call me... only that you could, and I wouldn't care... What I'm getting at is I don't understand why some people get so offended by someone elses opinions... What does it matter what someone else thinks of whatever... What's important is what -you- think of the things that are important to you... Isn't that half the joy of being alive? That we're all different? With any luck we can share our opinions without being offended that we have different beliefs... At least that's the way it works in -MY- world... {~` |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: mousethief Date: 30 Oct 00 - 06:29 PM I hear what you're saying, Clint, and agree with your 6:26 post, but still, I'm just not sure how much joy it brings to life to say, "What you like to do is childish." It seems a very limp sort of joy that depends on insulting other people. That's all.
Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: Zebedee Date: 30 Oct 00 - 06:53 PM Mousethief / Clinton Hammond With all due respect you're both starting to sound like 9 years olds. Why not let it rest? Thanks to all on the thread who answered my query. Cheers Zeb |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: Clinton Hammond2 Date: 30 Oct 00 - 07:00 PM Zebedee *running around in a circle" NO NO NO NO NO NOO NO NO LOL!!! {~` |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 31 Oct 00 - 10:56 AM I'm not a techie but I call it "Yew Are Ell". I think my students might see through the facade of knowledge I hide behind if I called it "Blue clicky thing"! RtS |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: MMario Date: 31 Oct 00 - 11:02 AM ewe-or-else and "blue clickies" are seperate things. As a tech support person, I call them whatever will help the person on the other end of the phone understand what I am saying. "Blue clickie thing" has been a godsend since it was coined here on the mudcat. (bowing three times to toronto - if it was originated by whom I remember) and I use "address" more often then I use URL or "web-address". |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: Fred/Forsh Date: 31 Oct 00 - 11:07 AM To achieve the correct proniunciation of "URL:" Take a quart pot, fill with equal parts of creme de menth, pernod, cherry brandy, whiskey and gin, drink back in one, chase with a glass of liver salts and a raw egg....the resulting sound upon expulsion, is the correct way to pronounce URL. (Hurl with out the "H" !) |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: BillR Date: 31 Oct 00 - 11:56 AM I vote for U-R-L. I've only heard one or two people say "yurl" but it sounds really ugly to me. BTW, it's "Uniform (not Universal) Resource Locator", as it's a standardized format for specifying the location of things on the web. -Bill |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: MMario Date: 31 Oct 00 - 12:00 PM yup. uh-huh. "address" works. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: mousethief Date: 31 Oct 00 - 12:03 PM I'm nine and a HALF, bignose. nyah nyah nyah.
Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: GUEST,albamist Date: 31 Oct 00 - 12:39 PM Sorry to inform you that you are all WRONG. Your opinions are WRONG. Your explanations are WRONG. It is URALS, the guy who named them was mountaineering at the time. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: mousethief Date: 31 Oct 00 - 03:51 PM Let's leave urass out of it. No wait, you said urals, not urass. Never mind.
Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: okthen Date: 31 Oct 00 - 04:33 PM URLITZER one for the money....... cheers(suddenly wishing he could post anonymously) bill |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: Murray MacLeod Date: 31 Oct 00 - 06:35 PM I had always believed that URL stood for Unique Resource Locator. Time for an authoritative stamement on this, I feel. Murray |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: Jon Freeman Date: 31 Oct 00 - 06:50 PM BillR is correct. URL does stand for Uniform Resource Locator. Jon |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: mousethief Date: 31 Oct 00 - 08:19 PM When I was in the Navy ROTC I sure could have used a Uniform Resource Locator. I was always losing pieces of my uniform.
Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: WyoWoman Date: 31 Oct 00 - 08:36 PM I call 'em web addresses. I had a beautiful 1965 Chevy truck named Earl once. Hate to get them confused ... ww |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: catspaw49 Date: 31 Oct 00 - 10:27 PM This is probably the only friggin' place on the net where you could get 40 posts out of how to say three letters. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: MMario Date: 31 Oct 00 - 10:31 PM nah, believe it or not, I know a couple of others |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: catspaw49 Date: 31 Oct 00 - 10:36 PM Are you surfing the porn sites or what? Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: MMario Date: 31 Oct 00 - 10:48 PM no - just a couple of forums where I've actually been told I spell my name wrong (!); arguments over grammer can go one for months (between the same people, over and over and over); one where people tell an author his interpretation of HIS OWN WORK is incorrect....etc. Really makes coming to the 'cat a pleasure, even during "bad times" |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: GUEST,Bill in Alabama Date: 01 Nov 00 - 06:35 AM U.R.L. is an alphabetism; *yurl* is an acronym; ADDRESS seems to get the job done. I reckon any one of them will get the job done. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How do you pronounce URL? From: A Wandering Minstrel Date: 01 Nov 00 - 08:41 AM The 'P' is silent! All us web-site makers here in my office go with Earls. But address works a lot too! |