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How to pronounce XOR...really?

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MK14:
Some processor instruction sets, call (XOR) 'EOR', i.e. the EOR instruction.

E.g. This (arm) one here:
https://heyrick.eu/armwiki/EOR


--- Quote ---EOR will perform a logical, bitwise, Exclusive OR between the two operands
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wally2q:
some languages do not have the letter X in their alphabet... and as such, when writing text, books, manuals, or even interpreters and compilers for processors - they revert to alternatives that can be spelled using that language's keyboard.

yes in the modern world any symbol can be pulled from a character map application, but that is very tedious when you are on a roll cranking out code at some fast pace...

JohnnyMalaria:

--- Quote from: TimFox on March 02, 2021, 10:05:07 pm ---In the phrase "XOR gate", this can be parsed as "XOR" (adjective) modifying "gate" (noun).  Of course, this is short for "exclusive-or gate".
To be pedantic, an acronym is an abbreviation that can be pronounced as a word (laser, NASA, snafu, etc.).  Not all abbreviations can be pronounced easily, and are usually pronounced as their constituent letters or letter-combinations (such as "ex or".

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Oh, don't get me started on the BBC and their insanity of turning common abbreviations that are pronounced as words into mixed case. e.g., NASA -> Nasa, NATO -> Nato. And using phrases such as "Brazil covid", "Japan asteroid probe", "England man" instead of "Brazilian covid", "Japanese asteroid probe", "English man".

JohnnyMalaria:

--- Quote from: MK14 on March 02, 2021, 10:10:49 pm ---Some processor instruction sets, call (XOR) 'EOR', i.e. the EOR instruction.

E.g. This (arm) one here:
https://heyrick.eu/armwiki/EOR


--- Quote ---EOR will perform a logical, bitwise, Exclusive OR between the two operands
--- End quote ---

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That's a neat trick for a donkey.

TimFox:
I’m aware that some European languages that use the Latin alphabet do not use X in native words, but do their typewriters and keyboards omit the letter?  Croatian uses the Latin alphabet, without Q, W, and X, but they probably show up in mathematical and technical usage.  I have seen European-manufacture typewriters where W and Z are in different locations than on the modern QWERTY standard, but they all contain the 26 letters used in English.

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