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Comment by tremon

5 days ago

The Dutch pronunciation of javascript differs from the English one only in the first syllable. Roughly zero dutchies would insert the Dutch schr- sound in a loanword, and even fewer would do that while leaving the foreign -ipt suffix intact.

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DonHopkins  4 days ago

Maybe they're just taking advantage of the opportunity to expectorate then.

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