We did some surveys (partly because we thought of the “ICLR” / “eye clear” abbreviation) and only relatively few people liked the “clear” pronunciation. So the pronunciation we’re going for is “C L R” (“see ell are”). Of course, if people just end up saying “clear” and like it, we won’t object and would be happy to adopt that.
The downside of “see ell are”, as mentioned by JasperGeh, would be that, as I’ve understood, CEEALAR is supposed to be pronounced “see ale-are”. So it would sound similar.
Good job on completing the rebranding! Do you have an opinion on whether CLR should be pronounced as “see ell are” or as “clear”?
Just as a data point, “eye clear” took off for the conference ICLR so people seem to find the “clear” pronunciation intuitive.
We did some surveys (partly because we thought of the “ICLR” / “eye clear” abbreviation) and only relatively few people liked the “clear” pronunciation. So the pronunciation we’re going for is “C L R” (“see ell are”). Of course, if people just end up saying “clear” and like it, we won’t object and would be happy to adopt that.
The downside of “see ell are”, as mentioned by JasperGeh, would be that, as I’ve understood, CEEALAR is supposed to be pronounced “see ale-are”. So it would sound similar.
SEE-ler?
This seems like a better fit for CEEALAR than CLR?