How to pronounce Bezier

Bezier is most commonly pronounced "BEZ ee ay" (/ˈbɛz.i.eɪ/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.

Three syllables: BEZ-ee-ay, with the final '-ier' as the French /je/ → 'yay/ay' and a SILENT 'r'. Named after French engineer Pierre Bézier (French [bezje]); anglicized to 'BEZ-ee-ay' (Wikipedia also lists 'BEH-zee-ay', /ˈbɛz.i.eɪ/). Hugely common in front-end and graphics work — every CSS author meets cubic-bezier() and SVG path Béziers — yet it's routinely mispronounced 'BEEZ-ee-er' or 'BEZ-yer' with a hard, sounded 'r'. The accent on the é is also dropped in code (cubic-bezier), reinforcing the wrong reading. Stress is on the first syllable (BEZ); the alt form moves emphasis to the final 'AY'.

Alternate readings you might hear:

• "bez ee AY" /ˌbɛz.iˈeɪ/

Source: Wikipedia — Bézier curve

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