On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 05:08:39PM +0100, Rhys Hopkins wrote: > > > > Whilst "Data Munging with Perl" is, of course, a fine book, in > > With a fine title. > > Following the recent discussion on the pronunciation of > regex / regexp, this is something that has intrigued me for some time, > > mung - ing as in mung beans, or > munj - ing as in sponge ? > > Put another way do you mung, or munge the data ?
I've always understood it to rhyme with monger, which is the mung bean sense. As in fishmonger. I thought that perlmongers are generally people who both munge and mong perl. In the sense of working with it, and getting paid for it. Does that make any sense? > > Rhys. /joel
