Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:32:24 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>, David Talkington <dtalk@prairienet.org>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Peter Lai <PeterL@resnet.uconn.edu>, Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Subject: Re: Pronunciations Message-ID: <XFMail.001130153224.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1001130173532.96910E-100000@localhost>
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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 <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- 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
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