Is there guidance for an official pronunciation of "tabyl"?

[mattroumaya]

My colleagues and I greatly benefit from janitor and are incredibly appreciative of the package!

We have been running some training sessions, and people tend to say something like: "To calculate frequencies we can use the function tabble, or... tay-bull... table? not sure how to say it...".

I am genuinely curious if there is an intended way to pronounce tabyl! ❓

[sfirke]

Good question 😁 There's not a definitive answer, I'd be curious to poll people and see how they say it. I remarked on this a bit in this issue thread: #101 (comment)

I was looking for a better name than tabyl. I still don't love tabyl, I've just never come up with something I like better. Pros: It's short, unique, and it looks like if you combined "table" with the 'y' from dplyr/tidyr. Cons: it's unclear how to say it!

I just say it "table" and kind of aggressively collide with the homophone of base R table() - I never use table() so it works for me to pretend table() doesn't exist but I get how that confusion is not ideal. But I think there's no wrong answer here.

[mattroumaya]

Thanks, Sam! I also just say table, and scarcely use the table function. A true toe-may-toe/toe-mah-toe situation! 😸