From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 29 17:22:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08C4837B43F for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 17:22:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 25F796ACBA; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:52:09 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:52:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Alex.Wilkinson@senet.com.au Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pronunciation Message-ID: <20010430095209.C75345@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from valex@senet.com.au on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:45:36AM +0930 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 30 April 2001 at 9:45:36 +0930, Alex Wilkinson wrote: > > Hi all, > > Could anyone refer to a paper that specifies correct UNIX pronunciation. > eg. The correct pronunciation of /etc /usr tyy ptty.....and so on. *sigh* /me waits for the thread from hell to develop. Here are mine: /etc ETSI or etcetera, depending on how I'm feeling. /usr User tyy ptty Don't know these ones. If you mean tty and pty, tty Titty pty Pity Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message