From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 22 5:45:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-11.mail.demon.net (finch-post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EC1A14ED8 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 05:45:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-11.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10aIol-0000ql-0B; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 12:43:00 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from support-3.uk.radan.com (support-3 [193.114.228.220]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id NAA03693; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:42:53 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com by support-3.uk.radan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA07942; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:42:52 +0100 Message-ID: <371F1915.7E2AC5E0@uk.radan.com> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:41:57 +0100 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: paul@originative.co.uk Cc: dpilgrim@uswest.net, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When speaking about unix... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org paul@originative.co.uk wrote: > > Linux being one of my favourites since despite > Linus putting out a sound sample of how it should be pronounced most users > still insist it's the other way. > That's because most English speakers think Linus is pronounced Line-uss, as in Charlie Brown & Peanuts. As Linus proves in the sound sample you mentioned, Scandanavians pronounce it Leen-uus. > Paul. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message