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From: phil@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre)
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Subject: Re: Pronunciation of TeX?
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Date: 18 Sep 89 15:08:36 GMT
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In article <1989Sep14.213548.6704@nueces.cactus.org> chari@nueces.UUCP (Christopher M. Whatley) writes:
>
>Well, I had always thought that TeX was pronounced as "tecks" but,
>yesterday, someone said it was pronounced "teck". Well, which is
>right?

Go read chapter 1 of The TeXBook:

"Insiders pronounce the X of TeX as a Greek chi, not as an 'x', so
that TeX rhymes with the word blecchhh.  It's the 'ch' sound in
Scottish words like loch or German words like ach; it's Spanish 'j'
and a Russian 'kh'."

Although I don't necessarily agree with all of his language examples,
(and I can't seem to find "blecchhh" in my English dictionary), I
would say that your "someone" was closer to correct that you were.




		William LeFebvre
		Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
		Northwestern University
		<phil@eecs.nwu.edu>