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Scrapy pronunciation #5280

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S4NT14G0 opened this issue Oct 15, 2021 · 4 comments · Fixed by #5281
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Scrapy pronunciation #5280

S4NT14G0 opened this issue Oct 15, 2021 · 4 comments · Fixed by #5281

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@S4NT14G0 S4NT14G0 commented Oct 15, 2021

My co-worker has been making everyone laugh in our daily standups while saying the word scrapy. This sparked a debate of how to pronounce this library name.. Please advise.

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@JacksonDorsett JacksonDorsett commented Oct 15, 2021

Its pronounced Scrape - ee

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@Gallaecio Gallaecio commented Oct 15, 2021

Even though it includes no reference about it, Wikipedia got it right. @shaneaevans himself confirmed this to me. Maybe we should cover this in the documentation to allow Wikipedia to properly source that information.

PS: I don’t think I have ever pronounced it as it is supposed to be pronounced. I’m actually used to something closer to what @JacksonDorsett uses.

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@raphaelts3 raphaelts3 commented Oct 15, 2021

@Gallaecio I've took the liberty of PRing it #5281

@wRAR wRAR closed this in #5281 Oct 18, 2021
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@pablohoffman pablohoffman commented Mar 1, 2022

Hehe, this is a nice discussion that comes back every now and then. tl;dr: both pronunciations are accepted.

Originally we pronounced it like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUFJdsNZYlA - because a lot of the team behind it were native Spanish (Uruguayans) and that pronunciation felt more natural.

Then came /ˈskreɪpaɪ/ SKRAY-peye - which I think it's more natural to English native, and we decided that both pronunciations were accepted, cause both were pretty embedded by then. A consequence of the distribute nature of how Scrapy started and the fact that most conversations happened over text chat, not spoken conversations :)

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