Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 22:26:24 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: Peter Lai <PeterL@resnet.uconn.edu>, "'Alfred Perlstein '" <bright@wintelcom.net>, "'David Talkington '" <dtalk@prairienet.org> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG '" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Pronunciations Message-ID: <00113022262400.02830@buffy> In-Reply-To: <9F36E367710D474E9806AA393FE737FB019EE6@resnetnt.resnet.uconn.edu> References: <9F36E367710D474E9806AA393FE737FB019EE6@resnetnt.resnet.uconn.edu>
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On Thursday 30 November 2000 19:39, Peter Lai wrote: > peeco because "pico" is the SI prefix for 10^-12 and is pronouncied in good > greek,latin,and french as "peeco" > A on oldie Unix person... /lib as in "fib" /usr as in "user" ! .. but the 'e' only hinted at or slash U S R (if you insist) /etc "etcetera" (some reprobates say E T C) More difficult is how do you say "!" I have heard "shreek" and "bang" commonly (on one system I worked on the root password was "!angela", pronounced "bang angela" .. mmm) Or "#" The English say "hash", some australians say "crunch" Americans says (bizarrely) "pound" .. yes yes I know why :) While we are here folks the "rc" as in configuration filenames does NOT mean "Read or Run Configuration" it means "Run Commands".. so there ! Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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