Re: Two trivial questions

[Dave Kemper]

On 10/26/21, Peter Schaffter <peter@schaffter.ca> wrote:
> I've been checking out YouTube videos on groff.  The
> uploaders all say "groff" (one syllable, like "gruff").
> I say "g-roff" (to match t-roff and n-roff).

The groff documentation itself says how to pronounce "troff" but is
silent on the pronunciation of "groff."  So little surprise that those
not steeped in troff history would default to the natural way of
saying that string of letters.  One might even conclude from this that
it has no canonical pronunciation.

Section 1.1 of "An Introduction to the GNU Groff Text Processing
System" by Manas Laha (which I found on the net some time ago, though
it no longer lives at the URL where I found it) says "groff" is
pronounced "gee-roff."  That article doesn't originate from the GNU
project but is the most definitive answer I've run across.