Internet debates have raged for too long – Let's Settle This

• bazel-website

  1 17 0.0 HTML

  Discontinued Website for Bazel, a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system

  

A more recent example of "how the heck do I pronounce this word" is Bazel, the build system.

I've always pronounced it to rhyme with "hazel", but many of my colleagues rhyme it with "dazzle".

The Bazel website even has a FAQ entry about it, but they managed to completely confuse the issue:

> How do you pronounce “Bazel”?

> The same way as “basil” (the herb) in US English: “BAY-zel”. It rhymes with “hazel”. IPA: /ˈbeɪzˌəl/

Little problem here... Basil, the herb, can be pronounced either to rhyme with hazel or to rhyme with dazzle.

So naturally I opened a PR attempting to clarify this. It led to an interesting discussion, and in the end I wrote a bad poem acknowledging both pronunciations:

https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-website/pull/323

• javascript

  132 141,679 6.0 JavaScript

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• InfluxDB

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• rustfmt

  57 5,761 8.9 Rust

  Format Rust code

  

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