Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!unisoft!greywolf From: greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Pronunciations (was: And how do you pronounce "csh"?) Message-ID: <2547@unisoft.UUCP> Date: 27 Oct 89 21:51:59 GMT References: <929@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> <4305@csd4.csd.uwm.edu> <3598@frame.UUCP> <440@nixba.UUCP> <2375@convex.UUCP> Reply-To: greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf) Lines: 42 In article <2375@convex.UUCP> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes: >In article <440@nixba.UUCP> mike@nixba.UUCP (Mike Lyons) writes: [ various pronounciations of UNIX words ... ] > >My basic tendency, and those of most (although not all) around me >is to say the UNIXism in the easiest possible way, that is, with the >fewest syllables. Thus I nearly never spell out a command I could >otherwise pronounce. The first three in Mike's list are some of these. >Yes, and that means I say "vye" as well, but tough noogies. Paul Dubois >and I just share that distinctive Madisonian accent. It's true that >this introduces an ambiguity with "ex" and "X11", but context always >seems sufficient to differentiate them. Usually, the "eleven" on the end differentiates sufficiently. >| strrchr = stir - recker How about "stir-r-care" or "stir-r-char"? > >| uucico = you - you - kee - ko >agreed. I don't know, usually due to the fact that uucico can act strange on occasion, I call it "you-you-SY-ko" (could be re-spelled "uupsycho")... >| HUPCL = hoop - sell Usually this gets expanded to "hupclose", since that's what it means... Incidentally, the thread which started this all, namely, "How do you pro- nounce ''csh''?"... Ever since I was a wee luser (ages ago), I heard it referred to as "sish". I have heard people ask me, though, "Do you have kish on board?", and I tell them, "Oh, yeah, we have sish, kish, teesish, bash, or if you want it, just plain ol' S-H..." I get the strangest looks and I have *no* idea why.... %^D -- "Insane I may be. I am not stupid." Antryg Windrose