Editing JSON (section)

== Naming and pronunciation ==
The 2017 [[international standard]] (ECMA-404 and ISO/IEC 21778:2017) specifies that "JSON" is "pronounced {{IPAc-en|ˈ|dʒ|eɪ|·|s|ə|n}}, as in '[[Jason]] and The [[Argonauts]]{{'"}}.<ref name=":0"/><ref name="ecma2017">{{cite web |url=https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-404/ |title=ECMA-404: The JSON Data Interchange Syntax |publisher=[[Ecma International]] |date=December 2017 |edition=2nd |access-date=2024-04-29 |page=iii, footnote |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191027160438/http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/ECMA-404.pdf |archive-date=2019-10-27 |ref=ecma2017}}</ref> The first (2013) edition of ECMA-404 did not address the pronunciation.<ref name="ecma2013" /> The ''UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook'' states, "[[Douglas Crockford]], who named and promoted the JSON format, says it's pronounced like the name Jason. But somehow, 'JAY-sawn'{{notetag|{{IPAc-en|ˈ|dʒ|eɪ|ˌ|s|ɒ|n}}, assuming the [[cot-caught merger]]}} seems to have become more common in the technical community."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nemeth |first1=Evi |last2=Snyder |first2=Garth |last3=Hein |first3=Trent R. |last4=Whaley |first4=Ben |last5=Mackin |first5=Dan |title=UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook |date=2017 |publisher=Addison-Wesley Professional |isbn=9780134278292 |edition=5th |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f7M1DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT1125 |access-date=29 October 2019 |language=en |chapter=19: Web Hosting}}</ref> Crockford said in 2011, "There's a lot of argument about how you pronounce that, but I strictly don't care."<ref name="saga"/>