From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 30 13: 6:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.cray.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC8437B6A7 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:05:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from tera.com (athena.sea.tera.com [207.224.230.169]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA17467; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:05:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by tera.com (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id NAA04661; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:05:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:05:57 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Brian Beattie Cc: Stephen Hovey , David Talkington , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pronunciations Message-ID: <20001130130557.A4646@athena.sea.tera.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95us In-Reply-To: ; from Brian Beattie on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:19:00AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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