From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 22 6: 5: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 08784153E3 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 06:05:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpilgrim@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 832 invoked by alias); 22 Apr 1999 13:02:29 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org@fixme Received: (qmail 818 invoked by uid 0); 22 Apr 1999 13:02:28 -0000 Received: from fdsl89.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (216.161.80.89) by ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 22 Apr 1999 13:02:28 -0000 Message-ID: <371F1DD3.1B79D67E@uswest.net> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 06:02:11 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim Organization: Neatly stacked heaps of digital chaos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Ovens Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When speaking about unix... References: <371F0D00.DA22D070@uswest.net> <371F185F.BBD9DB6E@uk.radan.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mark Ovens wrote: > > Darren Pilgrim wrote: > > > > How do you one pronouce various programs and parts of unix? I'm > > always getting into little debates about the correct pronunication of > > commands/programs. One example would be gnome--silent g or gee-nome? > > > > I think of it as a slient 'g', but maybe it should be guh-nome, as in > GNU? I though, up until I heard someone speak it, that GNU was pronounced "new". It makes we wonder why the unix people of lore didn't add a pronunication info to the man pages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message