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| On May 13, 2014, at 6:45 AM, Anders Sundstedt wrote: > My initial comment reading just the first section would be on pronouncing the extension, why "palm", when it's POM and also means Professional Open Movie file format? (No L) > > There's a subtle L in "palm" vs "pom" so I would argue that it's not quite "palm". (I also checked with a text to speech software). > > I could be wrong but just wanted to comment on that one. Well, I guess that's sort of a pun. At least with a Californian accent, the two sound identical. Maybe I should drop the bit about pronunciation and let people say it however they might, hopefully like the beginning of the word "pomegranate." People in other countries can scratch their heads and wonder why the POM file format has a palm tree in its logo. I was following the example of PNG, which is officially pronounced "ping", but since "png" is unpronounceable, I guess there are no accent incompatibilities there. And of course, I am open to better names if anyone has one. Brendan |
