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From: paul@csnz.co.nz (Paul Gillingwater)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Pronunciations (was: And how do you pronounce "csh"?)
Summary: The rain in Spain..
Message-ID: <133@csnz.co.nz>
Date: 26 Oct 89 21:44:21 GMT
References: <929@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> <4305@csd4.csd.uwm.edu> <3598@frame.UUCP> <440@nixba.UUCP>
Reply-To: paul@csnz.co.nz (Paul Gillingwater)
Organization: Computer Sciences of NZ Limited
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In article <440@nixba.UUCP> mike@nixba.UUCP (Mike Lyons) writes:
>As you can see from my header, I work here in Germany.  I'm always debating
>with my colleagues over what the "correct" pronunciation for various UNIX
>things are. 
I was working in Spain recently with some UNIX people, and this is 
some of what I heard:

UNIX:	you - niece	(The X is a sibilant when postfixed)
XENIX:	chen - ees	(X becomes a "ch" sound when prefixed)
vi:	vee		(that's 'i' as in Si)
uucico:	ooh - ooh - thee - tho (that's "th" as in cloth)

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