How do you pronounce "Enum"?

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How do you pronounce "Enum"?

In the spirit of this question how do you pronounce Enum? Tagging as subjective and community wiki obviously.

I've heard E-Nuhm and E-Nnoom any others?

Edit: Looks like we have a winner. Thought it'd be a closer race since most of the people at my work use the 2nd one.

+68 A:

E-nuhm (nuhm as in numb)

Davy8 2009-04-06 00:25:45

Is that because it e-numberates a list?

Adam Liss 2009-04-06 00:48:43

But how do you pronounce "numb"? Just kidding, +1.

paxdiablo 2009-04-06 03:09:42

@Adam Liss: "e-numberates"? Don't you mean "enumerate"...?

peSHIr 2009-05-25 09:10:37

@peSHIr I believe that was the joke being made

Davy8 2009-05-25 16:51:25

I agree with this answer. If it was supposed to be pronounced "e-noom", it would have been abbreviated to "Enume".

Sam Pearson 2010-05-20 17:26:21

Programming is about being efficient, and saying e-numb is easier than saying e-noom (as an English english speaker)

ck 2010-08-18 07:03:29

+5 A:

E-noom (noom rhymes with loom)

Davy8 2009-04-06 00:26:48

I use this - check the pronunciation at: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enumerator - Enumerator is pronounced this way.

Reed Copsey 2009-04-06 00:32:49

Logically, this is how it should be pronounced, since it's how "enumeration" is pronounced. But I pronounce it the other way; I'm not really sure why.

Brian Campbell 2009-04-06 00:39:34

it's E-NEW-merator, not E-NOO-merator. Darn americans

Orion Edwards 2009-04-06 00:43:48

Enum should be pronounced E-noom (or e-newm) as much as public should be pronounced pub-liss.

Jeff Yates 2009-04-06 00:46:30

@Orion Edwards: Worse yet, your disdain is totally lost on us Darn Americans, as we pronounce "NEW" and "NOO" identically. As they say down south, y'all speak our language funny!

Adam Liss 2009-04-06 00:46:42

I believe that there are more English-speakers in India than US and UK combined. So, we should probably defer to them. That is, until Chinglish takes over as having the most speakers of ay language.

S.Lott 2009-04-06 00:49:26

Oy, there's another 20-odd million English speaker over here in the land of Oz as well. I know it's a rounding error on the populations of US/UK but surely it counts for something :-)

paxdiablo 2009-04-06 03:14:44

@Adam and S.Lott: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Software Monkey 2009-04-06 03:18:21

@Pax: Plus another 4 or so million of us Kiwi's spread around the world having about as much impact as a shot-glass tipped into the ocean.

Software Monkey 2009-04-06 03:20:19

Only on SO can a simple technical(-ish) question evolve into a lesson on demographics, statistics, linguistics, and colloquial humor. If our school systems were half this effective, programmers would be able to spell, do math, and respect each other!

Adam Liss 2009-04-12 17:21:09

+28 A:

Pronunciation winds up irking me quite a bit because there are so many people who take the subject to ridiculous religious extremes.

Therefore, "Enum" should be pronounced GIF.

Jesse C. Slicer 2009-04-06 00:38:55

I prefer to pronounce it "jay-peg"

Nathan Tomkins 2010-08-18 07:13:16

Josh Bloch pronounces it Enoom as in rhymes with zoom.

mP 2009-05-25 08:55:30

Dupe answer, should leave as comment

Davy8 2009-05-25 16:49:20

+2 A:

Would any of you who pronounce it enuhm not understand any other developer who pronounces it enoom? Would any of you who pronounce it enoom not understand any other developer who pronounces it enuhm?

Or, does it actually matter, apart from some sense of "being right"?
Tomahto / Tomeyto ;-)

peSHIr 2009-05-25 09:15:49

♪ let's call the whole thing off ♫

Marc Gravell 2009-05-25 09:24:26

[enjum] Using phonetic transcription.

Dev er dev 2009-05-25 09:25:52

In Dutch we say "ay-nuhm".

Martijn 2009-05-25 09:45:34

I certainly do not. ;-)

peSHIr 2009-05-29 11:56:08

I programmed before I knew how to pronounce English words properly.

So, I would pronounce enum as Yeah-noom back then (if it existed :))

Right now Eh-numb makes sense to me.

Hamish Grubijan 2010-05-20 17:18:32

It's short for "enumerate", check out it's pronunciation at: http://www.how-do-you-pronounce.com/pronounce-word/enumerate/

How Do You Pronounce 2010-08-18 06:58:51

Er, I think everyone knows what its short for, but it is also a word in its own right, so the pronounciation doesn't really need to be related to what it is short for.

ck 2010-08-18 07:05:03

ansaurus

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