From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 22 5:57:59 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 A415414F27 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 05:57:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpilgrim@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 28847 invoked by alias); 22 Apr 1999 12:55:22 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org@fixme Received: (qmail 28826 invoked by uid 0); 22 Apr 1999 12:55:21 -0000 Received: from fdsl89.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (216.161.80.89) by ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 22 Apr 1999 12:55:21 -0000 Message-ID: <371F1C29.2E0A9EDA@uswest.net> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 05:55:05 -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: paul@originative.co.uk, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When speaking about unix... References: <371F1915.7E2AC5E0@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: > 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. I and my good friend Sam (who got me into Linux way back at kernel v1.2) pronounce it Lih-nicks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message