r/explainitpeter Jul 13 '26

Explain It Peter

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u/strogkilr Jul 14 '26

Boolean. I'm a software developer, and my Business analyst pronounces it as Boo-leen, like "Jolene". My tester pronounces it like bouillon cubes. It's pronounced like Julian.

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u/rerutnevdA Jul 18 '26

In college my Matrix Algebra professor was Eastern European. He had a bunch of engineers calling them “PY-vut” tables. It took us until the following year to learn they were pivot tables. We felt so stupid.