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From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,misc.misc
Subject: Re: smail pronounciation
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Date: Tue, 17-Mar-87 00:18:04 EST
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In article <200@quacky.mips.UUCP> dce@quacky.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
>  .  .  .  . I pronounce 'lib' as 'lybe', as though I was going to say
>'library' and stopped.

Then I'm sure you pronounce 'bin' as 'byne', as though you were going
to say 'binary' and stopped.  (One person I pointed this out to said
that he'd rather change his pronounciation to 'binnary' than to make
his pronunciation of 'bin' consistant with his pronunciation of 'lib'.)

Me?  I pronounce 'lib' as 'lib', 'bin' as 'bin', and 'usr' as 'OO-sir'
or 'yoo-ess-are' (so as not to confuse it with 'user', which it ain't).


		-Ed Hall
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