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10 Aug 2024 03:18:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: How's it pronounced?  
From: Ken
Date: 14 Mar 2000 09:30:45
Message: <38CE4D99.B672827D@pacbell.net>
Ron Parker wrote:

> I don't think there is an "official" pronunciation; if there is, it wasn't told
> to me during the complex, excruciatingly painful, arcane, and humiliating
> initiation ritual.

Is that the initiation ritual where they said " Hi Ron, welcome to the
POV -Team" ?

>  The single-syllable pronunciation seems to be winning, but
> there are a few bastions of sanity where it's pronounced as three letters.

If your sanity is to prevail then you should represent it as P.O.V.-Ray.
otherwise the single-syllable pronunciation will win out.

-- 
Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
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