[Haskell-cafe] Monad pronounced like gonad?

Creighton Hogg wchogg at gmail.com
Thu May 10 16:15:56 EDT 2007


On 5/10/07, Dan Weston <westondan at imageworks.com> wrote:
>
> I've been pronouncing monad like gonad (moh-nad), but it occurs to me
> that it might be pronounced like monoid (mah-nad).
>
> Is there an official way to pronouce this word - maybe with a Scottish
> accent? :)


I've always said mah-nad, mah-noyd, and I think it might be because I always
heard mah-no-morphism, not mo-no-morphism.  I'll admit that doesn't really
make sense, given then it's ho-mo-morphism.
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