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As a person who's mother tongue is Dutch. I would suggest to accept the 'libe' abbreviation if you can convince everybody to spell 'library' as 'liberary' Peter -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tod Olson Sent: donderdag 14 februari 2013 11:26 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lib or Libe "cod-for-lib", anyone? -Tod On Feb 13, 2013, at 6:55 PM, Jay Luker <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > People, people. > > Can we agree that "lib" is simply easier to say than "libe" due to the > shorter vowel sound? > > Can we also agree than the best coders are, by nature, lazy? > > Therefore, "lib" wins. All you. "libe" mohubs can go call the > wah-wah-wahmbulance. > > --jay > > On Wednesday, February 13, 2013, Kyle Banerjee wrote: > >> I'm going to go out on a limb and say your dad's a transplant from >> the midwest or the mid Atlantic states. >> >> I'm guessing you can pronounce Willamette either because you know the >> region, are used to crazy English spellings used to refer to Native >> American place names, or both. >> >> kyle >>