From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 30 11:23:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.aracnet.com (mail3.aracnet.com [216.99.193.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1AD637B401 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:23:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail3.aracnet.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAUJNL704076; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:23:21 -0800 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id LAA15537; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:23:14 -0800 Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:23:14 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Beattie To: "Passki, Jonathan P" Cc: "'Peter Lai'" , "'David Talkington '" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org '" Subject: RE: Pronunciations In-Reply-To: <7799D023E51ED311BFB50008C75DD7B402881B07@uschiexc05.kweb.us.kpmg.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Passki, Jonathan P wrote: > Here's another good one, though: /etc > > Some people pronounce it like its root word, etcetera, which is > grammatically correct, since etcetera is abbreviated like "etc." Others say > it like "et-sEE." What's the better one? > I'm glad you asked, this is infact one of the most complicated, since the correct answer is of couse that one should randomize there use of thetwo options using rand(3). Brian Beattie | This email was produced using professional quality, beattie@aracnet.com | standards based software. Users of Microsoft beattie@aracnet.com | products or other substandard software should www.aracnet.com/~beattie | contact the author about receiving a Free upgrade to | FreeBSD or Linux. "FreeBSD: The power to serve" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message