Today at work, someone wrote the following as a work item summary: “Synch production and test data”.
Reading this, I thought, “Which is correct – sync or synch – when shortening synchronize?”
The winner is sync, and here’s why:
- We pronounce either variant as sink.
- c alone is often pronounced k (cake, panic)
- ch alone is often pronounced ch (church, match)
- Sync = ”sink”
- Synch = “sinch”
- One less keystroke for sync
I was happy with that until reading an article on The Language Lover’s Blog, “Sync or Synch?“, which made me conscious of other common variants, such as psych as short for psychology.
Ultimately, my search was put to bed when I read this comment:
you guys are such nerds!!! the world really doesnt care about the voiceles velar fricative converting to a velar plosive. blogging should be eliminated from the internet.
Guilty as charged…