[PROJ] How is PROJ pronounced?

[Greg Troxel]

Javier Jimenez Shaw <j1 at jimenezshaw.com> writes:

> Recently somebody asked me why do I pronounce PROJ that way.
> What I try to say is /ˈprɒdʒ/  ( hear it somehow
> http://ipa-reader.xyz/?text=%CB%88pr%C9%92d%CA%92 )
> Is there any "official" way or consensus about it?

My opinions have formed in a vacuum separated from actually talking to
others, but:

  I see PROJ as sort for "projection".

  I pronounce it as rhyming with "dodge".  This has a different vowel
  and different voicing of the j sound than when I say the word
  projection.

  I view my pronunciation as the way I expect other native en_US
  speakers to read it (knowing/guessing "proj is short for projection")
  without any prior experience.  en_CA and maybe en_GB I would maybe
  expect a long O, but I am pretty sure Gerald Evenden was from the US.

Relative to the ipa-reader.xyz "sally - american", I say it faster, with
the vowel being maybe 2/3 the length and the j even less.  But it's
quite close, and I'm from ~Boston so I talk wicked fast compared to
people from e.g. Georgia.

You can hear a shift to a slightly longer O in "brian - british".  A
Canadian might have a much larger shift to fully long O, the way they
would says "process", but I think the short word somewhat avoids that.