Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:05:57 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com> Cc: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>, David Talkington <dtalk@prairienet.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pronunciations Message-ID: <20001130130557.A4646@athena.sea.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011301117430.31931-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>; from Brian Beattie on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:19:00AM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10011301412160.5691-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011301117430.31931-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:19:00AM -0800, Brian Beattie wrote: > Ok, let me settle this once and for all. > > The tule is hort vowels. > > vib, sin, peeco > > but vi is pronounced six. > I was at Berkeley 20+ years back when Unix was closer to its roots. There was a close association with the few people at Murry Hill who gave birth to Unix ... The following is what I've been using, despite much of the rest-of-the-world changing. bin rhymes with tin lib rhymes with vibe Bill Joy (and everybody else) pronounced ed as EE DE and ex as EE ECKS; vi as vee-eye. src is pronounced as source; fsck as EFF ESS CEE KAY. and etc as etcetera, not ET-CEE. But as language evolves, pronounciations change, so this become little more that geek trivia! gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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