Hmmm. Let's try some vowel sounds in there....

au - sounds like "paupers" - no
ee - sounds like "peepers" - no, definitely not
i - sounds like "pipers" - everyone will get that wrong
oo - sounds like "poopers"....

Forget it! That was a really bad idea!


Quoting Chris London <[email protected]>:

> At Zend Con they treat the second P like it's silent with their Elephpants
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Donald Livingston
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> For the consideration of all, I'm going to humbly submit "Phpper" (with the
>> idea to phonetically pronounce as "pepper")
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Ken Snyder <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > AJ, only *you* would ask such a question :)
>> >
>> > Maybe we're sophisticated and prefer "PHP Developer"?
>> >
>> > It is hard to find something quite right because PHP is an acronym. And
>> > ending in the letter P is a problem too. Nobody wants a nickname that
>> ends
>> > in "pee-head", "pee-er", "pee-ster".
>> >
>> > Maybe something related to elephants?
>> >
>> > - Ken
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:10 PM, AJ ONeal <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > > I'm compiling a canonical list of (polite) name calling:
>> > > https://gist.github.com/coolaj86/9256619
>> > >
>> > > Ruby => Rubyist
>> > > Python => Pythonista
>> > > Node => Nodester
>> > > Go => Gopher
>> > >
>> > > What do I put for PHP?
>> > >
>> > > AJ ONeal
>> > >
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