Lame Journal comments:
I was debating opening this post with an animated GIF showing Ethereal running under Linux, capturing traffic originating from a Huawei router. Unfortunately I realized as I wrote the image caption that pronouncing some of those words correctly was going to be a real challenge.
There are always going to be disputes about how to pronounce (or not pronounce) acronyms and initialisms in technology. Everyone’s viewpoint is valid. Except for the people that pronounce VRF as “verf”. That’s just wrong.
Read more at: I Now Pronounce You, Um, I’m Not Entirely Sure.
*lol* I was told of one company where the new guy questioned if, by “verf” the team was referring to “VRF”. He was then pretty much ostracized as they decided that the new guy clearly knew nothing about MPLS. Reality was the guy was very good at MPLS, but had simply never worked anywhere where he had encountered “verf” as a pronunciation…