# How do you pronounce ghcup?

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**Created:** [August 24, 2023, 9:53pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-do-you-pronounce-ghcup/7407 "2023-08-24T21:53:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![romildo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/romildo/32/3582_2.png) [@romildo](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/romildo)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 9:53pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-do-you-pronounce-ghcup/7407/1 "2023-08-24T21:53:31Z")

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After an hiatus of 5 years, I am returning to teaching Haskell to undergraduate students. For that I am having to update my experience with the development tools, as I have not been using Haskell in this period.

One new kid in the block for me is ghcup, which I have just found is one of the recommended ways of installing Haskell nowadays.

I would like to know how do you pronounce _ghcup_ when talking about it.

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**Author:** ![jaror](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/jaror/32/3271_2.png) [@jaror](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/jaror)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-do-you-pronounce-ghcup/7407/2 "2023-08-24T21:58:43Z")

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GHC up, or fully “spelled out”: gee-age-sea up

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**Author:** ![Liamzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Liamzy](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/Liamzy)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 11:55pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-do-you-pronounce-ghcup/7407/3 "2023-08-24T23:55:46Z")

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GHC cup? Totally wrong, but makes me think of a cup full of lambdas.

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**Author:** ![atravers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@atravers](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/atravers)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 4:30am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-do-you-pronounce-ghcup/7407/4 "2023-08-25T04:30:19Z")

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I think it’s inspired by the cross-platform install `rustup` for Rust which presumably is pronounced _“rust up”_, so:

> [@jaror](#):
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> _“GHC up”_, or […] _“gee haych see up”_.

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> [@Liamzy](#):
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> GHC cup? Totally wrong, but makes me think of a cup full of lambdas.

Or a competition: _“…and the the 37th annual Glasgow Haskell Cup is underway!”_ `:-D`

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**Author:** ![Kleidukos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/kleidukos/32/1213_2.png) [@Kleidukos](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/Kleidukos)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 10:17am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-do-you-pronounce-ghcup/7407/5 "2023-08-25T10:17:45Z")

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I spell it out in English, even while speaking another language (which is not the case of GHC :P)

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**Author:** ![tobz619](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/tobz619/32/3125_2.png) [@tobz619](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/tobz619)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2023, 8:24pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-do-you-pronounce-ghcup/7407/6 "2023-08-26T20:24:43Z")

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I say pronounce it as Jee-Haych-See Up