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As an Englishman (and dont forget we invented the language ) everyone I know pronounces it as:
Moz Zilla
The Moz bit rhymes with 'was', the zilla bit as in Godzilla. Mind you, in England the variation in accents between one town and the next is remarkable, so who can say what is right!
Hmm. If you can't say which one is right, can you tell us which one was first? Isn't Godzilla a Japanese word? Which part of England is that? Is it near Korea? I think the English over there is probably pretty old too. Anyway, where was Mozilla invented? Was it born speaking English?
Since (Mozilla) "was a contraction of Mosaic killer (that is, the euphemism "killa" leading to Moz+illa)", shouldn't it be pronounced Mo' ziller? I think that's what I'm gonna start doing.
Still no word on where it was invented though. Probably Mountain View, California, somewhere near the Us of A.
Holy ****. You've got over 11,000 posts in less than 3 years?? Do you do anything besides look at this site?
Yes, I do everything that normal people do i.e. go to work, hang out with my friends, family and spend time with my loved one. I also do martial arts classes 5 days a week and lots of reading. I sometimes work very long hours on my own so when I am bored I hang around here.
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Originally Posted by PatrickMay16
Whoa... calm down. I was just saying.
I was genuinely wondering why my comments could have bothered you and wasn't being harsh or anything like that.
Now, can we go back to discussing how to pronounce "Mozilla" (although I am still of the opinion that this thread should not really have been resurrected) . By the way I pronounce it as "MOZ-ILLA(H)". I'm not sure whether thats correct.
I just pronounce it Mozilla. No emphasis on any particular syllable or anything. (Mo as in Row, Z as in Z, -illa as in villa)
That's still a bit vague on the pronunciation. Three syllables means it could be mOzilla, mozIlla, mozillA, or even mO zI LLa.
I like the idea of rhyming with villa, since the ll = y, and the pronunciation becomes Mo' zeeya.
I wonder if lots of Spanish speakers say it like that.
...(although I am still of the opinion that this thread should not really have been resurrected) .
This is the only substantive thread about pronunciation on the entire web. Google the question and see about 6 responses including a one-liner at slashdot. So the significance of the topic goes way beyond this particular forum.
Yes, I do everything that normal people do i.e. go to work, hang out with my friends, family and spend time with my loved one. I also do martial arts classes 5 days a week and lots of reading. I sometimes work very long hours on my own so when I am bored I hang around here.
(and then realizing the math I just did was completely vain)
seems to reveal around 11 posts a day. Since each post requires atleast 10 characters thats atleast 100 characters a day. which is just about the length of two moderately lengthed sentences.
You don't seem like a 10 character per post guy to me. Reading must mean message boards, work = office with internet, and martial arts = throwing ninja stars at the keyboard.
Last edited by slantoflight; 10-30-2006 at 05:02 AM..
(and then realizing the math I just did was completely vain)
seems to reveal around 11 posts a day. Since each post requires atleast 10 characters thats atleast 100 characters a day. which is just about the length of two moderately lengthed sentences.
You don't seem like a 10 character per post guy to me. Reading must mean message boards, work = office with internet, and martial arts = throwing ninja stars at the keyboard.
You made my day, especially with the martial arts bit.
I searched google to find out how to pronounce Mozilla after I spoke to Elliot from VBug when he rang me - I said "do I have to use that microsoft stuff, I'm in the thick of Mozilla now?"
I pronounced it, as I have from the beginning, in the same way I pronounce the pizz in pizza and the mozz in mozzerella. Now that I write it down I see my error!
(I'm Welsh living in England FWIW).
Of course the 'zz' in Italian has a hard 'tss' sound, or so I was told about pizza a long time ago; so, without thinking it through, I used that for Mozz-iller as I will say it from now on.
Unless, of course, I adopt the Spanish double-elle pronounciation - grin
In conclusion, Mozz-illya as in tortilla (or Illya Kuryakin for you other old guys).
I wonder how I'll get on with Linux with an attitude like this.....
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) everyone I know pronounces it as:
