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How to pronounce some functions in Clojure

A small question: in Clojure, how to pronounce some function names, for example, conj ? Is it expressed as the full word “conjoin” or does it simply cast a spell on each character as “conj” while talking to another programmer? The same question, e.g. assoc , disj , nth , etc.

I am not a native speaker of English and want to avoid misunderstandings arising from different pronunciations in my team.

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Rich hickey pronounces them like

conj as kawnj (listen 0:25:35 ) (and thanks @amalloy )

associate as assou-sh (listen at 0:55:35 )

Unfortunately, I did not find how he says disj and nth, but as far as I know, he is pronounced as "disjay" and "enth".

It is best to listen to one or two clojure-based video processing: you will be hard on your knowledge and hear how to carry things.

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conj pronounced "conj"; assoc usually pronounced "ass" with long o and heavy ones (which, at least, says the Old Believers Lispers). nth will be the usual "enth". Not sure about disj , I would say "dis-jay".

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