Apart from anything else, ECMAScript is a mouthful! Eeh-cee-emm-ay-script. Five syllables.

tietjens 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Don't most people just pronounce it Eck-ma?

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sph 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It should've been called AcmeScript. The association with Wile E. Coyote would've been fitting.

	▲	someguyiguess 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That’s actually the perfect name for it!

mbirth 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Since the association renamed itself to “Ecma International” in 1994, I believe we can just call it Eck-mah-script.

hn_throw2025 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And it sounds like a skin condition.

	▲	biofox 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Flaky when under pressure? Irritating results? Sites look and feel better without it? Sounds appropriate to me.

It's a genuinely terrible name.

Maybe it should just be pronounced eck-ma-script so it's got the same number of syllables as ja-va-script.

	▲	lionkor 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It is pronounced like that, typically
	▲	art0rz 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I've only ever heard it pronounced as "EcmaScript" not E-C-M-A Script"