From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 30 15:32:53 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 A0FE937B401 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:32:50 -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 eAUNW3C76907; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:32:03 -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: Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:32:24 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Chris Hill Subject: Re: Pronunciations Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , David Talkington , Alfred Perlstein , Peter Lai , Cliff Sarginson Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 30-Nov-00 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. I prefer ET-see as well. >> 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." I say TIL-day, but I'm just a youngin' -- 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