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Add phonetic pronunciation for WHATWG #448

Open tylerjmorg opened 2 months ago

tylerjmorg commented 2 months ago

I figured that it may be useful to add IPA pronunciations for the different examples on the FAQ page.

Small change, but may be useful for internationalization of the name. :)

tylerjmorg commented 1 month ago

Thank you! That should be fixed for IETF langs.

tylerjmorg commented 1 month ago

Also, would you rather en-UK be switched to en-GB?

annevk commented 1 month ago

Yeah, en-GB would be better.

There was this feedback on Matrix about this PR:

They have "what" as rhyming with "lot" in both the UK and US pronunciations – I think at least in the US it's a lot more common to rhyme it with "cut"

janbrasna commented 1 month ago

Actually, is there a preferred way how to call oneselves by the group/members?

If so, it would be also worth updating https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/WHATWG#Pronunciation to show the preferred choice, or all acceptable forms.

tylerjmorg commented 1 month ago

I'll address these questions based on my perceptive.

  1. I've based these pronunciations on the Cambridge Dictionary. So I'm unsure whether we should include multiple en-GB pronunciations which differ based on region. See a3.

  2. I agree, the vowel length should be changed especially since "WHAT" is grouped with WG phonetically in all three examples.

  3. Kind of tying into the first address. Since WHATWG is steered by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla. Which the HQs are based in the U.S., we could just consider the en-US IPA as the primary pronunciation and leave other regions like en-GB to decide their own dialect (e.g., Welsh, Cockney, Yorkshire, etc).

  4. WHATWG is pronounced in multiple ways (e.g., I pronounce it as WHAT-DOUBLE YOU-GEE myself). So having just one way to pronounce WHATWG may lead to conflicts and unnecessary habit changes. However, the steering group may feel differently and that can be a discussion at a later time. I just think that think this PR wouldn't be the appropriate channel to discuss that big of a change.

Let me know what y'all think! Love to hear from you all! Should we ditch the en-GB section altogether? Do you think having IPA pronunciations may be unnecessary?

annevk commented 1 month ago

Let's see: