Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!paris.Berkeley.EDU!mcgrath From: mcgrath@paris.Berkeley.EDU (Roland McGrath) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Pronunciations (was: And how do you pronounce "csh"?) Message-ID: Date: 29 Oct 89 18:45:15 GMT References: <929@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> <4305@csd4.csd.uwm.edu> <3598@frame.UUCP> <440@nixba.UUCP> <11411@smoke.BRL.MIL> <2106@se-sd.NCR.COM> <2002@zen.co.uk> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Organization: Hackers Anonymous International, Ltd., Inc. (Applications welcome) Lines: 26 In-reply-to: frank@zen.co.uk's message of 29 Oct 89 15:23:38 GMT In article <2002@zen.co.uk> frank@zen.co.uk (Frank Wales) writes: the editors ex, vi and sed were a pun on the notion that they were the last words in editing: hence the pronunciation of their names as sounding like the last letters of the alphabet (needs an English accent to work). Consequently, my normal pronunciations of them are: eks, vy and sehd. Isn't logic wonderful, especially when it's wrong? Especially when its foundations are wrong. ex, vi, and sed were written by Americans, who pronounce the the final three letters of the alphabet eks, why, zee. Some other local "sayings": MS-DOS Domesdos (something we put down toilets here) Mess-Dos and MS-Dog are common deregatory versions. Now, how do you pronounce Knuth? The real answer is that you *do* pronounce the K (k-nooth). The facetious answer is, of course, "Don". -- Roland McGrath Free Software Foundation, Inc. roland@ai.mit.edu, uunet!ai.mit.edu!roland