How do you pronounce cron?
cron/krɒn/
Commonly said as: "crown"
krahn
cron
What it is
cron is the job scheduler on Unix-like systems.
Why it gets said wrong
One syllable, rhyming with con, not crown. The name comes from the Greek chronos, time.
Hear it in a sentence
Run it daily with cron.
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