Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:39:08 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Cc: Peter Lai <PeterL@resnet.uconn.edu>, "'Alfred Perlstein '" <bright@wintelcom.net>, "'David Talkington '" <dtalk@prairienet.org>, "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG '" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Pronunciations Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1001130173532.96910E-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <00113022262400.02830@buffy>
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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." -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org [1] Bus error netscape To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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