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Probably should have come up with a better name. The natural English syllabification of this is 'wog.ram.mers', rather than 'wo.gram.mers'. That's a barrel of worms you don't want to open!... Which is a shame, because such an initiative isn't one that should be pulled down because of something so superficial.

EDIT: The natural British English syllabification, where 'wog' is a derogatory racial slur.



In my mind, strangely, it came out as "woeful programmers" - "women" didn't even occur to me.

Obviously this name is every bit as bad as the execrable "brogrammers".


If they wanted to find a female equivalent to "brogrammer", "sisgrammer" would be closer.


Isn't brogrammer derogatory?


I'm sure it is on HN. There are probably places where they talk about ninjas and rockstars where it might not (yet) be, I'm not sure.


The intended pronunciation came naturally for me. I don't think it's an issue.




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