From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 30 15:32:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0442837B400 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:32:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp246.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.246]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id eAUNW8C76911; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:32:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <00113023473808.02830@buffy> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:32:29 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Cliff Sarginson Subject: Re: Pronunciations Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , David Talkington , Alfred Perlstein , Peter Lai , Chris Hill Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 30-Nov-00 Cliff Sarginson wrote: > 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" caret > and {} .. curly brackets or accolades ? I've also heard "curly braces" or just "braces". -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message