Most important question I've yet to have an answer to

How do you pronounce GRBL??!

Gar-Bull?

Grrr-Bull?

Gerbil?

just, G.R.B.L.?

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I think of it as Grr-ble

here is the answer

How do you pronounce Grbl!?

This is probably the number one question, and the answer is: ā€œIt depends on who you ask.ā€

When Simen Svale Skogsrud first sat down and wrote Grbl in 2009, he named it after a bigger version of a computer mouse. It’s small, useful, and doesn’t do much other than what its designed to do. So, if you ask him, it’s pronounced like ā€œgerbilā€. If you ask Sonny Jeon, the developer since 2011, he’d say it’s pronounced ā€˜grr-ble’, because he was teased too many times by his wife when working on the project. If you ask Edward Ford of Shapeoko, he’d probably say ā€˜garble’, even though he knows better. In any case, pronounce it however you’d like. We love hearing the various interpretations of our name!

I don’t say it, I just type it.

I try to stay away from it :grimacing:

I have it from a very good authority that it is Grrr-Bull … or sometimes Gerbil :slight_smile: … but never Gar-Bull :angry:

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Does it really matter?

I prefer the french, Jer-belle.

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I am kinda partial to ā€œgrebbelā€.

Dribble

Grrrreat!

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He might not be that wrong if you follow this link;

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