{"id":11047,"date":"2013-01-28T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/01\/28\/knack-pronunciation-guide-kludge-as-in-fudge\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:34:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:34:47","slug":"knack-pronunciation-guide-kludge-as-in-fudge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/01\/28\/knack-pronunciation-guide-kludge-as-in-fudge\/","title":{"rendered":"Knack Pronunciation Guide: Kludge (as in Fudge)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A SolderSmoke listener (who will remain unnamed) recently corrected me on my pronunciation of an important Knack-related word: Kludge. I kludge as in fudge or judge. He said it should be Kluge as in stooge. I think we need a ruling her from our etymologist Steve Silverman. Steve? <\/b>

<\/b> I grew up listening to the 75 meter AM Northeast USA gang. They said Kludge as in stooge, so I hope we stick with that. <\/b>

<\/b> Wiki has an intereting (and seemingly endless) discussion on this topic: <\/b>
http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kludge<\/a><\/b>

<\/b> Excerpts: <\/b>

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‘An ill-assorted collection of poorly-matching parts, forming a distressing whole’ <\/b><\/p>\n

“There is a certain, indefinable, masochistic finesse that must go into true Kludge building. The professional can spot it instantly. The amateur may readily presume that “that’s the way computers are.” <\/b>

<\/b> “The result of this history is a tangle. Many younger U.S. hackers pronounce the word as \/klooj\/ but spell it, incorrectly for its meaning and pronunciation, as ‘kludge’. \u2026 British hackers mostly learned \/kluhj\/ orally, use it in a restricted negative sense and are at least consistent. European hackers have mostly learned the word from written American sources and tend to pronounce it \/kluhj\/ but use the wider American meaning! Some observers consider this mess appropriate in view of the word’s meaning.”<\/b><\/p>\n

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A SolderSmoke listener (who will remain unnamed) recently corrected me on my pronunciation of an important Knack-related word: Kludge. I kludge as in fudge or judge. He said it should be Kluge as in stooge. I think we need a ruling her from our etymologist Steve Silverman. Steve? I grew up listening to the 75 … Continue reading “Knack Pronunciation Guide: Kludge (as in Fudge)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knack-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11049,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11047\/revisions\/11049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}