From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 29 19: 4:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pine.senet.com.au (pine.senet.com.au [203.34.34.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADC8537B423 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 19:04:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from valex@senet.com.au) Received: from localhost (valex@localhost) by pine.senet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3U28xu04207; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 11:38:59 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from valex@senet.com.au) X-Authentication-Warning: pine.senet.com.au: valex owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 11:38:59 +0930 (CST) From: Alex Wilkinson Reply-To: Alex.Wilkinson@senet.com.au To: Greg Lehey Cc: Alex.Wilkinson@senet.com.au, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pronunciation In-Reply-To: <20010430095209.C75345@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Has anyone bothered to write a paper on this topic ? -aw On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 30 April 2001 at 9:45:36 +0930, Alex Wilkinson wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Could anyone refer to a paper that specifies correct UNIX pronunciation. > > eg. The correct pronunciation of /etc /usr tyy ptty.....and so on. > > *sigh* > > /me waits for the thread from hell to develop. > > Here are mine: > > /etc ETSI or etcetera, depending on how I'm feeling. > /usr User > > tyy ptty Don't know these ones. If you mean tty and pty, > > tty Titty > pty Pity > > Greg > -- > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message