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From: jeffm@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jeff Medcalf)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How do you tell a wizard?
Message-ID: <1989Oct21.132653.16115@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 21 Oct 89 13:26:53 GMT
References: <955@umb.umb.edu> <917@uakari.primate.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: jeffm@uokmax.UUCP (Jeff Medcalf)
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Organization: No, it isn't really.  (University of Oklahoma, ECN)
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In article <917@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> bin@primate.wisc.edu writes:
>I have *never* heard *anyone* call "vi" vee-eye.  Including wizards.
>
>Paul DuBois


Happens here all the time.  Everyone here, including wizards, calls vi vee-eye.
Occasionally, it will be referred to as visual, though that is rare.  I have
never heard it called vye even by novices, but then we have an orientation that
includes use of the vi editor, so users get the "correct" pronunciation right
off.


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