From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 9 12:31: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B2A137B580; Tue, 9 May 2000 12:28:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12pFOm-000O0b-00; Tue, 09 May 2000 20:10:28 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12pFOl-000MK7-00; Tue, 09 May 2000 20:10:27 +0100 Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 20:10:27 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How is "TeX" typically pronounced? Message-ID: <20000509201027.C386@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <8f7l66$2a2p$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kris Kennaway wrote: > On 9 May 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > >> How do English speakers effectively pronounce "TeX"? > > "Tek", although some of my co-students pronounce it "Tex". Is it still supposed to be pronounced like Knuth says when used as part of e.g. LaTeX? Either way, I pronounce it "Tex" (like the first syllable of Texas) but then I pronounce "Vi" as if it rhymed with "bye" too. I'm sure there are some words I pronounce correctly somewhere. :-) -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message