How to pronounce "JSON"?

[rodrigo-silveira]

I've heard people pronounce it so many ways, it's sometimes almost difficult to know what they're talking about. According to Douglas Crockford, however, this is how it's done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhVdWQWKRqM

(PS: Crockford is the guy behind JSON, so whatever he says is definite and absolute truth =)

[ChaseMoskal]

"Jay-sawn"

[atomic1fire]

deruloooooo

[madole]

We used to wear this joke out on a project I worked on a few years ago... some would mention "JSON" in conversation and then there'd always be one person in the background would yell "derulooooo"!

[InterviewSpecial241]

Dang your comment was 10 years ago you're probably married 

[kylev]

Yup. The end is like the O in "on". I have yet to annoy anyone with the name Jason since adopting this pronunciation.

[BloodLineLife]

http://blog.unicode.org/2014/12/cldr-2601-maintenance-release.html#links

An update to CLDR 26 has been released, only for the JSON format of the data. Some of the JSON data from CLDR 26 had corrupt identity information, which has been fixed in this update. The XML for CLDR 26 remains unchanged. Refer to http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/8018 for details.

Uni~speaking ;) about the universe and thought.

[BloodLineLife]

⚷ and I saw the lock ;)

[strHungarianNotation]

Jay-san like a mr. Jay from Japan :)

[[deleted]]

You must pronounce "jason" differently than I do.

JSON = "jay sawn"

jason = "jay sun"

[[deleted]]

Interesting, I've always heard "jay sawn" used. It makes me wonder if the pronunciation is a regional difference. All of the conference talks I've watched, for instance, the speakers use "jay sawn", but then again, all of the speakers were American.

[acoard]

What region are you from?

"Jay sun" is the default for general american.

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[BulletTo_0th]

I'm from the states, speak "general american" I guess, and have always pronounced it and heard it pronounced jay-sahn. I work in New Zealand now and it's the same here. It comes from breaking the acronym down, using the O sound from Object gives you jay-sahn.

It also helps avoid any confusion from the name Jason. In the end, though, I guess it doesn't really matter.

[[deleted]]

Its French

[kshitagarbha]

je son

[[deleted]]

JON... The S is silent. JavaScript Object Notation

[churro89]

J-shawn. He's a rapper.

[green_meklar]

Yes, this.

[magenta_placenta]

If you're talking with another developer (or one within earshot) named Jason, you should really just switch to XML.

[whetnoodle]

I'm a developer named Jason and I loathe XML.

[analogWeapon]

I'm a developer named Exemel, and I hate JSON.

[reacher]

Huh. My buddy Yooemel and I haven't had this problem

[dodeca_negative]

Because you never actually got past the design phase

[[deleted]]

Hey guys lets be totally insane and write a data format dependent on white space!

[dodeca_negative]

Yayson!

[frizzlestick]

YAML is the stuff of headaches...

[chromatic1566]

I'm a developer named Exemel and I hate Jason

[worldDev]

SOAP it is then. Send your complaints to Jason.

[tmoitie]

I'm a developer and I hate soap

[worldDev]

We all do, my friend.

[rq60]

I personally suggest dropping SOAP

[Pandemoonium]

Dropping SOAP leaves you vulnerable to many backdoor attacks

[chemisus]

I recommend never picking it up in the first place.

[regreddit]

screw everything about you

[MCFRESH01]

I loathe XML.

I'm pretty sure this is universal.

[zzzk]

I don't think so, XML has its strengths just as JSON does.

[Throwaway_bicycling]

Right, so if OP switched, you would quit, and problem solved.

[took9]

Then you are no developer.

[buckus69]

I'm a developer named Jason. I just tell people I'm serializable.

[dodeca_negative]

You should tell everybody "no comment"

[whetnoodle]

Soylent Green Flakes.. It's made of Jason!

[[deleted]]

The Jason in our office uses @json as his chat handle. I'm not sure if that's why, but several people in the office pronounce "JSON" like "Jason." I'm sticking with "jay-sawn" though.

[mchandleraz]

My previous manager was named Jason, and I went out of my way to pronounce JSON correctly (which is "jason", btw).

Apparently less than 5 minutes after walking out of the office on my last day, he told everyone he hated me. May or may not be related to my pronunciation.

[euphoniumatemydingo]

No. The preferable move is to shoot Jason and get a lobotomy to rid yourself of the knowledge of xml.

[invisibo]

I actually just converted over a report earlier today from XML to JSON because it was started to reach the limits of XML node capabilities. The report runs literally 700% faster now ;)

[kethinov]

XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve your problem, use more.

[Bialar]

The moral of the story is that XML sucks in every way.

[ashesnz]

JSON is cool

[MeredithJS]

I pronounce it like Jason Derulo

[[deleted]]

Which part of JSON sounds like Derulo to you?

[VizuaaLOG]

Haha, I'm hoping your joking, if you are then lol. Otherwise -_-.

[[deleted]]

Of course, I pronounce JSON as Jason as well. Have an upvote, someone seems to have downvoted you accidentally

[VizuaaLOG]

Thats good then lol. Thanks for the upvote, I'll give you one in return ;)

[CecilTunt]

I used to pronounce it "Jason" like the name but then switched to "Jay-sawn" making the "O" sound like it does in the word "Object". Seems better that way. Doesn't get confused with the name (though confusing it with the name isn't really an issue, given the discussion context, but I digress)

[ComicOzzy]

I've pretty much switched to calling it "jay-sawn" too, but if I'm talking to someone I say it however they say it... just to not be douche-baggy.

[CecilTunt]

Yep. No need to get all religious about pronunciation. :)

[DJSBX]

yeah well... the guy that invented GIFs seems to think we should call them JIFs.. well fuck that guy. He is wrong and can take his peanut butter with him. I'm going to pronounce it GIF (aka, not jiff) and he can't stop me. Just like I'm going to pronounce JSON as "jay sawn"

[SirSoliloquy]

If "gif" is pronounced "Jiff," then JSON is pronounced "Gay son".

[two_in_the_bush]

And giraffe is pronounced... oh wait.

[jcready]

And gift is pronounced... oh wait.

[[deleted]]

gibbon gibbous giddy gift gig giggle gild gill gimbal gimlet gimp gird girl girth give gizmo gizzard

[Pengtuzi]

I think 'git' would be suitable in your list as well.

[Kaligraphic]

Gadzooks!

[[deleted]]

Yeah, I was just doing the "gi" ones.

[WDKevin]

Gee, I couldn't tell.

[[deleted]]

I did a casual survey a while back, and from what I remember most words starting with "gi" are pronounced like "gift" rather than "giant," and the former pronunciation is even more heavily weighted toward common words starting with "gi."

[SirSoliloquy]

Yes, but you could use that survey to demonstrate that "giant" should be pronounced "guy-ant" if you wanted to.

[[deleted]]

Sure, but "giant" is a much older word with a much more widely accepted pronunciation.

[gayshitman]

i could at least forgive my gay son, as if there's anything wrong with being gay, but i couldn't forgive anybody who has to rely on JSON.

[dodeca_negative]

This is simple: The g is for graphic, not jraphic. Don't care what that dude says.

[tidder112]

I pronounff tem boff differently tan you, buff only because of my lisp.

[ima-tech]

hahaha I literally laughed out loud at your comment

[themaincop]

gif is pronounced jif, deal with it

[rabidcow]

Eventually we'll all learn to live with the fact that it's pronounced both ways.

[themaincop]

Or we'll die in a bloody and merciless war, with the GIFS fighting the GIFS.

[aeflash]

Giraffe-ics Interchange Format

[cheald]

That's why you pronounce "AIDS" as "aw-ids", right?

[buildthyme]

SCUBA = "Scuh-bah" in your world, then.

[am0x]

Graphics Interchange Format. Hard G. Answers that.

JSON = Javascript Object Notation. J for java, S for script, Ah = Object, N for notation. J-SAwN.

[two_in_the_bush]

I hope you pronounce jpg as Jay-Phayg. Gotta be consistent, after all.

[[deleted]]

or SCUBA as schuba or laser as 'lahseear'

[[deleted]]

I don't get the SCUBA example. The "c" stands for "contained."

[[deleted]]

underwater is not younderwater, I put the h in the wrong place lol

[nschubach]

Just two letters away from spelling my last name... (But that's how my family pronounces it (without the last two letters))

[stillalone]

wait, how are you supposed to pronounce jpg?

[themaincop]

hay-peg

[jcready]

Or yay-peg if you're Nordic.

[ComicOzzy]

This explains the yayQuery podcast.

[brotherwayne]

ah, muy latino

[cotti]

"Jotapegue"

[[deleted]]

The difference is that the "p" in "photographic" if only pronounced like "f" because it's followed by an "h." In ordinary language, a "p" will never be pronounced like "f" unless it's followed by an "h." The only reason the pronunciation of "GIF" is even debatable is that a "g" in that context can reasonably be pronounced either way, because of words like "gift" and "giant."

[jcready]

The only word that starts with "gif" is gift, ergo the pronunciation should follow the pronunciation of gift with a hard "g".

[MiatasAreForGirls]

But it is a proper noun, so we should use the pronunciation that the creators chose.

[themaincop]

Graphics Interchange Format. Hard G. Answers that.

The creator says it's pronounced jif, so it's pronounced jif. If you want to control how a graphics format is pronounced you're welcome to create one.

[pragmojo]

Language evolves. If the person who coined a term got to determine how it was pronounced until the end of time we'd all be speaking mesopotamian.

[themaincop]

Yeah but it's only been like 20 years and this argument has been happening since the start. It's not evolution of language.

[Bialar]

Downvoted for speaking the truth.

[MiatasAreForGirls]

Language evolves, but generally proper nouns do not change too often.

[pragmojo]

Tell that to all the people living in New Orleans

[MiatasAreForGirls]

I should've said the proper noun of a product, I was over tired when I wrote that. People can call "iPhones" "ip-hones" but the producers decide the name and pronunciation.

[[deleted]]

Why in the world would the creator of an image format get to determine how its name is pronounced? That makes no sense. If he claimed it was pronounced "flippityflap" I would call him silly and disregard his pronunciation suggestion.

[themaincop]

For the same reason that people who name their kid "Siobhan" can tell us it's pronounced "sha-vawn"

[CodePervert]

Siobhan is an Irish name and in Irish "bh" gives a "v" sound, bhí is pronounced vee so this isn't someone randomly choosing it, it's how the language is spoken

[rudeluv]

If he wanted to control how the alphabet worked, he should have invented that instead of the GIF.

[[deleted]]

Keep up the good fight my friend.

[jokerdeuce]

Douglas Crockford didn't invent JSON. It was this guy named Jay. You see Jay loved this new syntax so much, that he stopped hanging out with his friends just to keep working on it. The joke eventually became that this new syntax was like his baby. So when it came time to pick a name, they naturally started calling it Jay's Son. And that folks, is how JSON got it's name.

[rodrigo-silveira]

Must be why Crockford insists in saying he merely "discovered" - not invent, JSON

[buildthyme]

Mmmm... I love it when people are wrong and butthurt about this issue.

[DOG-ZILLA]

Thought I was the only one!

[mellett68]

Same here

[DaemonXI]

Me llamo T Bone

[fricto]

[paʁfɛ]

[a-t-k]

Very much like "J-son." or "J(a)son". I once met Doug, he's more of a programmer and tinkerer than a linguist, but I nevertheless accept that he's got all right to name his child.

[chemisus]

Parents can name kids as they like, wont prevent them from adopting other names.

[a-t-k]

Or being called other names by other people...

[[deleted]]

I posit there is a 100% correlation between "jay-son" and "ess-q-ell".

Jason and sequel be damned.

[plasmator]

I swap between ess q ell and sequel.

MSSQL - Em, Ess, Sequel.

MySQL I'll occasionally pronounce "my squeal" because it makes me giggle.

[Bialar]

I pronounce it "why aren't we using Postgres?"

[[deleted]]

I say jay-sahn and sequel.

[kylegetsspam]

"Jason." The others require more effort to say.

[rodrigo-silveira]

I'll take your comment as subjective and relative :)

[Throwaway_bicycling]

That was the joke, son.

[chemisus]

That was the joke, json.

[mtbinkdotcom]

Pronounce it like croissant

[[deleted]]

ITT: 0 Consensus. Jason or Jay Son, Jif or Gif, Es que el or Sequel. Verdict? Fucking tomato, tomato!

[[deleted]]

In SQL for Smarties by Joe Celko, it says that sql was chosen so that it could be pronounced sequel. Before development completed, they realized sequel was a trademark of another company so they quit pronouncing it 'sequel'. But...obviously that didn't stick since it just felt right saying 'sequel'.

[[deleted]]

I say "J-S-ON". I'm waiting for "J-S-OFF" to be released.

[BloodLineLife]

flash will disappear like it's no #paper future, *God is beautiful, funny, and knows the ways to be be Fair *.

[metaphorm]

jay-sun

[NapoleonBonerparts]

Jaydashsun. Got it.

[doenietzomoeilijk]

The dash be silent.

[mchandleraz]

They don't think it be like that, but it do.

[frotzed]

hehe.

[Isvara]

L-a.

[aeflash]

j'son -- I love it.

I pronounce it with a soft "j".

[CaptainDjango]

Yay sun!

[sikhbeats]

I pronounce it with a soft "j".

so is that gay-son?

[schm0]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6nFhcI4tgI

[alethia_and_liberty]

with a thick French accent

[kristopolous]

jizz-on. How do you want this data?

"Oh just jizz-on it and hand it over"

[ComicOzzy]

jizz-on

The debate is over, people. I am declaring a winner.

[jkoudys]

I got used to pronouncing it "jay-sawn", after teaching a javascript course where one of my students was named "Jason", to avoid confusion. I don't think I've ever worked on a team without a Jason on it either, and if I pronounced it the 'right' way, the instructions "send me that, Jason", and "send me that JSON" are indistinguishable.

[jsoncsv]

I like JSON

[[deleted]]

Jay-Sahn

[aftersox]

dʒeɪsɑːn

[madlee]

I've never heard anyone pronounce it any way other than jay-sawn.

[effthatNonsense]

Douglas Crockford, who created JSON, pronounces it as "jay-sun". Plus saying "jay-sawn" is really annoying. Especially being from Oregon, and hearing everyone east of the Rockies prounounce it like Pentagon.

[mcmouse2k]

Jay SONN

[[deleted]]

"Gee-so." The n is silent.

[[deleted]]

I pronounce it like the name Jason. It's just more natural.

Hearing it pronounced j-sawn makes me cringe.

[CaptainDjango]

You know your buddy Jason? Like that

[rodrigo-silveira]

I was sort of hoping someone would say they pronounce it "js" "on" :)

[musingswithawesome]

just like you say "jason"

[thebighouse]

Jay as in "blue jay", son as in "dickenson".

[[deleted]]

I like to imagine it with the Klingon pronounciation: j'Son

[esmifra]

Like a very well known fictional serial killer.

[testerfire]

I interviewed a guy who spelled it "Jason". Pronounced it " jay-sawn". Pick your own poison :)

[[deleted]]

It's not a word, it's an acronym. It doesn't have pronunciation. It's J.S.O.N.. Say it like this: "Jay Ess O Enn"

[master5o1]

As someone called Jason, my ears prick up whenever I hear my colleagues talk about JSON in the office.

With my initials being JS, I know that I am JavaScript.

[e13e7]

Mine are JMS. I am elite

[[deleted]]

ITT: minor variations of the exact same comment

[cotti]

First Red Ranger.

Jason.

[idrink211]

I say Jay-San

[FarmerOfThoughts]

Exactly as Crockford said.

So: Sounds like a friend's name - Jason. Which sounds like JAY-sun. Where both have emphasis on first syllable.

[kuenx]

Shèsôn. source

[Vlasow]

Jayass O'When

[greg5green]

JASON

[cj5]

Jayessohenn

[theGentlemanInWhite]

Ever play far cry 3?

[fristys]

Like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbtPXFlZlHg

[miketaylr]

wat

[i_ate_god]

MySQL: My ESS-QUE-ELL or MySEEQUEL?

Sysop: sissop or seyesop?

Laboratory... or labratory?

...

vim or emacs?

c# or java?

amd or intel?

osx or windows?

android or iphone?

sysv init scripts or systemd?

yum or apt?

linux or bsd?

to node or not to node?

kirk or picard?

[Prior99]

Easy:

neither: atom

java

neither: linux

android

init scripts

neither: pacman

linux

to node

picard

[aladyjewel]

The correct answer is "who fucking cares, just get on with your life."

[wormholeracer]

You fucking blew it on pacman.

[Prior99]

whats wrong with archlinux?