The Coq proof assistant does not seem to specify a pronunciation on its website, nor does the Wikipedia page list a pronunciation. How should its name be pronounced?
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The word coq, which is the French word for "cock", meaning male chicken or rooster, in English sees almost exclusive use in the name of the French dish coq au vin, and is pronounced either like "coke" or like "cock".
You have to distinguish English vowels from English orthography. There are between twelve and fifteen distinct vowels in English, depending on your dialect, but there are only 5 vowel letters in the orthography. This causes no end of problems.
The letter æ was used in Old English to represent the vowel that's pronounced in Modern English ash, fan, happy, and last: /æ/. Mostly we now spell that vowel with the letter a, because of the Great Vowel Shift.
When æ appears in writing Modern English, it's meant to be a typographic variant of ae, and is pronounced the same as that sequence of vowel letters would be. So Encyclopaedia or Encyclopædia, no difference.
From The Art of Computer Programming, volume 1, section 2.2.1 "Stacks, Queues, and Deques":
A deque ("double-ended queue") is a linear list for which all insertions and deletions (and usually all accesses) are made at the ends of the list. A deque is therefore more general than a stack or a queue; it has some properties in common with a deck of cards, and it is pronounced the same way.
It's pronounced /dɛk/, just like the word deck, as in a deck of cards.
Best Answer
The word coq, which is the French word for "cock", meaning male chicken or rooster, in English sees almost exclusive use in the name of the French dish coq au vin, and is pronounced either like "coke" or like "cock".