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

[Ebert,Timothy Aaron]

With "Big R Internet Archive Network" we could talk about the life of BRIAN, and any references to The Life of Brian would result in getting thrown to the floor by a Centurion. Better than a name like Windows where "Big Windows Internet Archive Network would be Bwian and we might wonder about thpiwit, (bwavado ... a touch of dewing-do), and about culturally insensitive joke names like Nortius Maximus and the risk of finding ourselves in gladiator school vewwy quickly with rotten behavior like this.

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From: R-help <r-help-bounces using r-project.org> On Behalf Of Barry Rowlingson
Sent: Thursday, May 5, 2022 9:13 AM
To: Kevin Thorpe <kevin.thorpe using utoronto.ca>
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Subject: Re: [R] [External] Re: Is there a canonical way to pronounce CRAN?

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If the founders had called it the Big R Archive Network we wouldn't be having this discussion but we'd all be getting our packages from BRAN.

Or how about "Big R Internet Archive Network".... Or would that be confusing...

Barry

On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 3:51 PM Kevin Thorpe <kevin.thorpe using utoronto.ca>
wrote:

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> 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 
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> 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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