Dec 17 2007
Knol Allegedly Rhymes With Call
On a Wikipedia talk page, I started a little discussion of how Knol is pronounced. Apparently somebody heard a report on NPR about Google Knol, and they say that it rhymes with ‘call’. That is, it sounds like the first syllable of the term ‘knowledge’.
That seems to make sense. Then a bit of debate ensued about difference pronunciations of ‘knowledge’, and the usual ‘reliable sources’ business and so forth. I gather we’re going to have to wait until a few Google employees say the word and it gets recorded for posterity. I’m liking the ‘knol equals call’ theory though–Occam’s razor and all that.
