From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 30 15:32:59 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 5DF1037B404 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:32:57 -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 eAUNW8C76915; 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: Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:32:29 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Roop Nanuwa Subject: RE: Pronunciations Cc: David Talkington Cc: David Talkington , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" , Peter Lai , Joel Bjork Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 30-Nov-00 Roop Nanuwa wrote: > > This is just me of course, but my pronunciations are as follows: > > /bin pronounced like sin > /usr pronounced like user > /src pronounced like source > /etc pronounced like the letters e-t-c > /sbin pronounced like the letter s plus bin > fsck pronounced like f-sack I used to say the letters: f-s-c-k, but now I usually say "fisk". (rhymes with disk) > Now here are some I'm not too sure about: > sh is just the letters s-h Yeah, s-h > but then is csh pronounced c-s-h or cash? I usually say C-shell > tcsh: I call it t-c-s-h.. is that right or is it t-cash? either TC-shell, or "teesh", some people call csh "seesh" in the same fashion. -- 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