Does anyone else pronounce CLI as "clee"?

Initialism.

I have a theory that the french, and americans share a love of taking acronyms/initialisms and finding a way to "pronounce" them. French company/organisational names appear to be chosen to be "pronouncable initialisms" such as IRCAM or INRIA. Australia has the C-S-I-R-O and you can say SI-Rho and some do. But french and americans definitely do this more. There's an ICANN (pronounced I-Can) body called the RSSAC which is AR-SACK. and SSAC which is SEC-SAC. Some initialisms defeat this. the I-E-T-F and the I-E-S-G and the I-A-B for instance. But I-ana is definitely pronounced as an I-word.

It's Jif btw.

Nobody says "sea, but bigger" for C++ and it wasn't called Cplus.

Never.

Like the new kid renaming the fork the bork, just being cute and all.

Cut it out.

Never in my life have I heard it pronounced “clee”.

No, you monster.

Is this what we're posting now on "Ask hnnnnng"? (That's how we pronounce the abbreviation for Hacker News, right?)

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Brevity is for the weak. It is pronounced "command line".

I pronounce it as cee ell eye but from now on it's clee I guess

I pronounce as CLI as well, at least mentally whenever I read it. I don't often, if ever get the chance to say it out loud, so I wouldn't know. English is not my native language so I guess "cee el eye" would not be how I'd say it.

As “clee”. But i’m not a native speaker.