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Subject: Re: smail pronounciation
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Date: Mon, 23-Feb-87 17:14:10 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 23 17:14:10 1987
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In article <486@sw1e.UUCP>, uusgta@sw1e.UUCP (uusgta) writes:
> In article <667@rtech.UUCP>, page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
> > How do you say 'vi'?  'rn'?  'Usenet'?  'rm'?  'mv'?  Should spaf (how do
> > you say 'gatech'? 'cbosgd'?) put out a Usenet Guide to Pronunciation?
> 
> How about "vi" as "veye" as in indiVIsible. 
> Any other strange ones out there?

I recently met someone who pronounced ".cshrc" as "dot see-shirk".
I liked that, since I pronounce csh as "see-shell" or "see ess aich",
but I've been unable to train myself to pronounce it that way.
(I usually call it "dot kashirk", which sounds like it's asking for a
"gezsundheit!" (um, I never took German), except when I'm talking to
people for whom I expect to have to spell it out.)

When I was first learning Unix, I was trained to call '~' a "twiddle",
but seemingly the rest of the world calls it "tilde".  Bang, backquote,
backslash and star seem fairly universal (although I have a terrible
time trying to teach the secretaries here, who are just learning Unix,
which is forward and which is backward), but is '#' a number sign,
a hash-mark, or something else?  (A colleague and I coined "scratch" for
'#' and "snail" (or "nautilus") for '@', but they never caught on.)
Come to think of it, I used to know someone who would run ay point out
after a compilation, which I though was odd at the time since everybody
else I know says ay dot out.

I always thought that "/lib" was pronounced as in "Libby's", but lots
of people around here call it "lybe".  (I've never heard "bine" as in
"binary", though.)  Mostly the same people who use "Megs" as the plural
of "Meg" (I use "Meg" for both singular and plural of "megabyte").
Come to think of it, they also tend to mispronounce my name, too ...

Everybody I've met seems to pronounce the "G" in Gnu.  Is this just
regional, or does rms pronounce it this way too?  Does Latex have a long
'a', or is it pronounced "lah-teck" (which, to my mind, isn't nearly as
funny)?

A popular command here is "tibble pipe ee cue en pipe trough".  "Ptroff",
though, is pronounced "pee-tee-roff", not "pee-trough".

I knew I had joined the ranks of REAL Lisp programmers when I found out
that "cdr" was pronounced "could-er" instead of "cooder" the way the
books said.  (But how do you pronounce cadddadr?)

I'd be interested in hearing how other people pronounce Unix-related
things.  I should probably post this to misc.misc.  Hmm, maybe I will.

Back to work?  Oh, yeah ...


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