[R] Is there a canonical way to pronounce CRAN?

[Avi Gross]

If R had remained just S, or even S++, would we be debating how to pronounce CSAN?
I do note in some languages CS is pronounceable. LOL!


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us>
To: r-help using r-project.org; Kevin Thorpe <kevin.thorpe using utoronto.ca>; Roland Rau <rau using demogr.mpg.de>
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Sent: Wed, May 4, 2022 12:01 pm
Subject: Re: [R] Is there a canonical way to pronounce CRAN?

I had exposure to CPAN and CTAN before learning R, and then there is MRAN... but with no in-person mentors influencing me I decided not to pronounce the C separately in CRAN. The "CRANberries" website indicates that I am not alone.

On May 4, 2022 7:38:13 AM PDT, Kevin Thorpe <kevin.thorpe using utoronto.ca> wrote:
>Interesting.
>
>I have always pronounced it as See-ran. This probably stems from my exposure to other archive like CPAN (perl) and CTAN (TeX) that I have been exposed to. Obviously the latter two acronyms are unpronounceable as words so I generalized the approach to CRAN.
>
>Kevin
>
>
>> On May 4, 2022, at 7:20 AM, Roland Rau via R-help <r-help using r-project.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> I talked with colleagues this morning and we realized that some people (=me) pronounce CRAN like the German word "Kran" (probably pronounced like "cruhn" in English -- if it was a word).
>> My colleague pronounced it as "Sea-Ran" or "Sea-Run". The colleague was a student and has worked at the same institution as an R Core Developer and heard it from him personally.
>> 
>> So now I am puzzled. Have I been wrong about 43% of my life? ;-)
>> 
>> Honestly: Is there a unique way how the core developers prounounce CRAN?
>> 
>> Not an urgent question at all but maybe interesting to many of us.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Roland
>> 
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