Right, so whoever wrote the software decided to give it a name identical to an existing English word, but would then balk at it being 'mispronounced'? If the developer didn't care enough about avoiding confusion then why the hell should I?
Ah, glancing at your profile I think you're hitting the traditional English problem of pronouncing letters which aren't there :) "To be forced to sawr into such rawr meat should be against the lawr"
It's nicely counterpointed by the other habit of not pronouncing letters which are there, like in Worchestershire.
I always say latex just because it makes pedants grit their teeth, and then just for fun randomly pronounce it correctly. A lot of CS people need to learn to chill a bit.
Yeah but in English, if everyone pronounces it wrong and you wait 100 years (now more like 20), it will become the default pronunciation via a special rule used by speakers and codified nowhere.
