I'm sure I'm not the only one whose introduction to computers consisted of sitting home alone and hacking away and only ever communicating about technical terminology via non-spoken media like IRC. What I wonder is if anyone else consequently developed their own quirky pronunciations for technical terms that differ wildly from convention.<p>As an example, I may pronounce "sudo" as "sue dough" or say "regex" with a soft "g", but what really makes my colleagues laugh at me is when I pronounce "bin" and "lib" with long i's (as in "binary" and "library").
I usually say "su-doe", not "su-doo"; "reg-ex", not "re-jex"; bin, not "bine"; and "lib", not "libe". I also say "lin-ux", not "lie-nux"; and "s-crypt", not "script".
I doubt there is any such thing as "convention". Some words are pronounced phonetically and some as fragments of the words they were abbreviated or concatenated from; who's to say which is correct? People don't even apply their own pronunciation patterns consistently.