From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 30 14:47:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8C3937B400 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:47:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 141cUR-0003ai-00; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 22:47:43 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by buffy.raggedclown (8.10.2/8.10.2) id eAUMlem04210; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 23:47:40 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 23:47:38 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Cc: Peter Lai , "'Alfred Perlstein '" , "'David Talkington '" , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG '" To: Chris Hill References: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Pronunciations MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00113023473808.02830@buffy> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message