Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 23:47:38 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> Cc: Peter Lai <PeterL@resnet.uconn.edu>, "'Alfred Perlstein '" <bright@wintelcom.net>, "'David Talkington '" <dtalk@prairienet.org>, "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG '" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Pronunciations Message-ID: <00113023473808.02830@buffy> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1001130173532.96910E-100000@localhost> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1001130173532.96910E-100000@localhost>
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On Thursday 30 November 2000 23:39, Chris Hill wrote:
> 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."
~ till duh OR squiggle
Or even more contoversial "^"
some say "circumflex", say say "hat"
and {} .. curly brackets or accolades ?
and 'ticks" or "quotes" ?
...
Cliff
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