"tkinter"

Christopher Reimer christopher_reimer at icloud.com
Wed Sep 13 09:12:41 EDT 2017


> On Sep 13, 2017, at 5:28 AM, Stefan Ram <ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
>  I presume that "tkinter" is intended to be pronounced
>  "logically":
> 
> T K inter (tee kay inter /ti keI In t%/)
> 
>  . But it would be faster to pronounce it 
> 
> T kinter (tee kinter /ti kIn t%/)
> 
>  . So far I've only ever read it, never heard it.
>  But while I am aware that the logical pronunciation should
>  be the correct one, I actually like the faster one.
> 
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When I started my technical career 20+ years ago, tcl/tk was pronounced "tickle" by the engineers.  Not sure if that was correct then or now.

Chris R. 


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