From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 30 14:40:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monochrome.org (monochrome.org [206.64.112.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AC1637B401 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:40:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (faro [192.168.1.7]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA11039; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:39:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:39:08 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill X-Sender: chris@localhost To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: Peter Lai , "'Alfred Perlstein '" , "'David Talkington '" , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG '" Subject: Re: Pronunciations In-Reply-To: <00113022262400.02830@buffy> 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, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > /etc "etcetera" (some reprobates say E T C) Some even worse reprobates (myself included) say ET-see. > Or "#" > > The English say "hash", some australians say "crunch" > Americans says (bizarrely) "pound" .. yes yes I know why :) And there are always the pedants who say "octothorpe." What about ~? In grade school I learned that it was pronounced "TIL-duh" but I have a friend who calls it "TIL-day." -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org [1] Bus error netscape To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message