POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : How's it pronounced? : Re: How's it pronounced? Server Time
10 Aug 2024 09:18:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: How's it pronounced?  
From: Ken
Date: 14 Mar 2000 21:51:58
Message: <38CEFB44.9A8BBB16@pacbell.net>
Alan Kong wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 06:32:57 -0800 Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> 
> >If your sanity is to prevail then you should represent it as P.O.V.-Ray.
> >otherwise the single-syllable pronunciation will win out.
> 
>   I wonder if someone would be willing to keep tally if we were to take
> an informal vote in p.o-t, "How I think 'POV-Ray' should be pronounced".
> 
>   We've basically got two camps: Pee-Oh-Vee Ray, or Pahv Ray. People
> with any other pronunciation would have to contact Ross Perot to get a
> signature drive going.

Not to throw too big a wrench into your proposal but I pronounce it

POV - rhymes with grove.

I don't care what the consensus is and will always say it that way.

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