Well, that’s the question for my English-speaking readers. How do you pronounce “blog” — “blog” or “bee-log”?
And the bonus question is… any idea how the “bee-log” pronounciation came to be?
As I see it, the “b” in “blog” is not an initial, but as it comes from “weblog”, it’s a shortened “web” (don’t know the technical term for that in English, in French it is “élision”). Hence the ‘blog.
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blog, as in we-blog. Never hear bee-log before.
down under, it’s a “blog”
je dis “blogue”, comme je dis “aime” (M)
to be logged or not to be… where is the question ?!
Definately blog (bee-log?? Who’s ever heard of that?)
Voici peut-être un début de réponse:
http://www.pointblog.com/past/000107.htm
It might have something to do with the very geeky fact that one might talk about ‘logs’, web access log, error log, and so forth. For me, when I look at ‘blog’, I see the word ‘log’, not blog. I had to get used to saying ‘blog’.
I prefer ‘blog’ to ‘weblog’, precisely because weblog makes me think of web server logs.
J’ai truve ca sur la prononciation
http://www.peterme.com/archives/00000205.html
I’m right with you in regard to the disphasia that results between serverlog and weblog. P.S. Mine now supports comments!
There’s a megawanker here in Canada named Jesse Hirsch who insistently mispronounces the word as “bee-log” on TV.
There’s amegawanker in the US (the prez)
who says ‘nukilar’ for nuclear.