"tkinter"

Sean DiZazzo sean.dizazzo at gmail.com
Wed Sep 13 23:39:30 EDT 2017


On Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 7:21:25 PM UTC-7, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2017-09-13, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> 
> > The toolkit in question is named “tk”, which I have only ever known to
> > be pronounced “tee kay”.
> >
> > The rest of the word is an abbreviation of “interface”.
> >
> > So, to me “Tkinter” is pronounced “tee kay inter”.
> 
> Same here.  Though I've probably said it aloud less than a half-dozen
> times in the past twenty-whatever years.
> 
> --
> Grant

I usually just say "tinker", since it's easy...knowing that it's wrong.  I agree with the "tee-kay" folks on correct pronunciation.



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