Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!looney!dopey From: dopey%looney@Sun.COM (Can't ya tell by the name) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Pronunciation Keywords: How do you say this? Message-ID: <128685@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 1 Dec 89 18:45:14 GMT References: <20874@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <11795@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: dopey@sun.UUCP (Can't ya tell by the name) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 39 Lets see if I can do this with the right phonetics, etc. In article <11795@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> markv@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Mark T Vandewettering) writes: >In article <20874@unix.cis.pitt.edu> ern@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Ernest J Obusek) writes: >> GNU > guh-new >> kludge > klooj >> char > car --> care >> soc.misc > soash dot misk --> soash dot miss >> troff > trough (like pigs trough) --> tea roff >> nroff > en-roff >> TeX > tech (as in technology) >> LaTeX > latech (as in latechnology) :-) >How bout punctuation? > >Like what are these > 1. ! --> bang > 2. @ --> at > 3. # --> pound > 4. & ampersand > 5. ^ --> up-caret :-}