On: Where grep came from [video]

[User23]

Stands to reason really. cd, ls, mv (crush the “move” heresy), ld, and others. Ambiguity creeps in at three characters. Who’s the man?

[jmts → User23]

From the video [1]:

"The UNIX text editor was called 'eee-dee' - it's not pronounced 'ed', at least by those in the know - it's pronounced 'eee-dee'. This was written by Ken Thompson, and I think it was basically a stripped down version of an editor called QED"

[1] https://youtu.be/NTfOnGZUZDk?t=113

[yjftsjthsd-h → User23]

Those lack the vowels to be pronounceable. Also ed looks like the first syllable of editor and could reasonable be pronounced as such.

[User23 → yjftsjthsd-h]

You're not wrong, but it's still pretty clear that the PDP11 crew thought in keystrokes and not syllables.

[srtjstjsj → yjftsjthsd-h]

"ed" (and the ED in QED)'s name was also chosen as an abbreviation for "editor". But the creators chose to pronounce the abbreviation differently.

[mturmon → yjftsjthsd-h]

The octal dumper od is pronounced oh-dee, the assembler is ay-ess, the archiver is ay-arr. OTOH, the delayed execution command is “at”, but that is a full word anyway.