Earl or you are el?

For the last eleven years I have always heard URL pronounced you-are-el. In the last 6 months I've heard a few people pronouncing it Earl. To me it sound like they don't know that it is U.R.L. and are pronouncing it like it's a word and not an acronym. These people have been programmers of non-webcentric languages.

Which do you prefer/use?

 

I always say "You Are El". Many people are in the habit of pronouncing all acronyms as a word.

 

I say it both ways, depending on how lazy I am. U R L or your-l.

 

I prefer saying "You Are El" instead of "U.R.L".

 

The first time I heard it pronounced Earl, I had an instant pet peeve. After a while I was going to either tell the guy to say U.R.L. or I would start refering to it as Ralph (when I was a kid we'd say someone one "calling Ralph and Earl" when they were vomiting).

 

I never used "Earl" and i pronounce it as You Are L

 

EERRRLLL.. haha... i cannot write it... lol... but i pronounce it that way.

 

i prefer website address... LMAO...

i say it as you are el

 

Do you ever hear it pronounced Earl or errrl? If so then by who? I heard it mainly from server side programmers that aren't very GUI. There focus is on transactions, log files, configurations, etc so they aren't so web interface focused.