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Apart from anything else, ECMAScript is a mouthful! Eeh-cee-emm-ay-script. Five syllables.


Don't most people just pronounce it Eck-ma?


It should've been called AcmeScript. The association with Wile E. Coyote would've been fitting.


That’s actually the perfect name for it!


Since the association renamed itself to “Ecma International” in 1994, I believe we can just call it Eck-mah-script.


And it sounds like a skin condition.


Flaky when under pressure? Irritating results? Sites look and feel better without it?

Sounds appropriate to me.


It's a genuinely terrible name.

Maybe it should just be pronounced eck-ma-script so it's got the same number of syllables as ja-va-script.


It is pronounced like that, typically


I've only ever heard it pronounced as "EcmaScript" not E-C-M-A Script"




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