Driver Speak: WinDBG

Everyone loves the the Windows Kernel Debugger WinDBG, but how do you pronounce it when you’re talking about it? There are, in fact, two commonly accepted pronounciations:

Win D-B-G

And:

Wind bag

I exclusively use the latter as it rolls off of the tongue a bit better in my opinion.

Bonus Material: Driver Speak Spelling Bee

WinDBG also has the distinction of having two spellings: WinDBG and WinDbg. WinDbg appears to be the “correct” spelling, as it is how the name appears in theĀ application’s title bar. However, for no good reason other than asthetics I prefer WinDBG, so that’s what I use.

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