silly question: erlang pronunciation

[Luke Gorrie]

matthias@REDACTED writes:

>  > i'm giving a talk soon on our use of erlang, and it occurred to me
>  > that i'm not sure how it is pronounced.  is it prounounced like
>  > "air-lang", or "ir-lang"?  i've heard both.
> 
> Native English speakers tend to call it "ir-lang" (i.e. sounds like
> 'herlang' said by someone 'oo drops 'is aitches) whereas the Swedes
> make it sound more like "air-lang", especially when they're speaking
> Swedish.

To avoid confusion, maybe it should be renamed Örlang ;-)

Cheers,
Luke