How to pronounce melange

melange is most commonly pronounced "may lahnzh" (/meɪˈlɑːnʒ/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.

melange is Chainguard's declarative apk build tool; paired with apko it builds Wolfi-based low-CVE container images without a Dockerfile. The name is the French word mélange ("mixture"), so the final -ange is a soft "zh" like rouge or measure, and the stress falls on the second syllable: may-LAHNZH, not "MEL-anj". The anglicized may-LAHNJ is a listed dictionary variant, but the zh-form is the standard one.

Alternate readings you might hear:

• "muh lahnzh" /məˈlɑːnʒ/
• "may lahnj" /meɪˈlɑːndʒ/

Source: Wiktionary — melange: /məˈlɑnʒ/, /meɪ-/, /-ˈlɑndʒ/ (corroborated by Dictionary.com: [mey-lahnzh, -lahnj])

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