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Today I learned that the PKCE extension for OAuth2 is officially pronounced "pixy"

That is a pronunciation I NEVER would have guessed correctly.

I've always pronounced it my head letter by letter. But it says how to pronounce it right at the beginning of the RFC. datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc...

Exact same thing I did. HTTP, PKCE, letter by letter. Interesting they added it to the RFC. I wonder if there are any others that have it.

There definitely are. I remember there's at least one other weird one from an IETF RFC for something that's well-known aside from the pronunciation. Looked it up... PNG is "ping" 🙃

For fun I decided to look up some others. There are a few, but so far my favorites are ACL (pronounced "ak-uh l", RFC 8519) and, well... you'll just have to read RFC 5513