On 10/26/21, Peter Schaffter <pe...@schaffter.ca> wrote: > I've been checking out YouTube videos on groff. The > uploaders all say "groff" (one syllable, like "gruff"). > I say "g-roff" (to match t-roff and n-roff).
The groff documentation itself says how to pronounce "troff" but is silent on the pronunciation of "groff." So little surprise that those not steeped in troff history would default to the natural way of saying that string of letters. One might even conclude from this that it has no canonical pronunciation. Section 1.1 of "An Introduction to the GNU Groff Text Processing System" by Manas Laha (which I found on the net some time ago, though it no longer lives at the URL where I found it) says "groff" is pronounced "gee-roff." That article doesn't originate from the GNU project but is the most definitive answer I've run across.
