Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!elbereth.rutgers.edu!cje From: cje@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Cthulhu's Jersey Epopt) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: TeX pronounciation Keywords: How, why? Message-ID: Date: 8 Sep 88 13:09:55 GMT References: <374@polyof.UUCP> Organization: Miskatonic U. Computer Operations & User Services Lines: 26 Cc: cje In article <374@polyof.UUCP> paul@polyof.UUCP (A1 Mr. Curran) writes: > How does one pronounce the term "TeX." There seem to be two > factions, one that says it's like TEK and another that says it's TEX > as in TEXas or TEXt. If it's TEK howcome it's pronounced that way; I > can't think of any english words that sound X that way. Also it would > seem more reasonable to say LATEX than LATEK. Just curious. The reason why "TeX" is pronounced "tek/tech/tecchh" is described on page 1 of Knuth's THE TEXBOOK. Around here, the factions are "lay-tech" vs. "lah-tech". Lamport said he wanted usage to determine the pronunciation, so he's no help. I say "lay-tech" because 1) the t-e-x root comes from "TeX" so I figure it should be pronounced that way, and 2) the full word looks like the word "latex" ("lay-tex"), so I figure the first syllable should similarly have the long "a". Question for the factions out there in French-speaking countries: how is it pronounced in French? "la lah-tech"? "le lah-tech"? "la lay-tech"? "le lay-tech"? -- Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin, Chris Jarocha-Ernst UUCP: {ames, cbosgd, harvard, moss, seismo}!rutgers!elbereth.rutgers.edu!cje ARPA: JAROCHAERNST@CANCER.RUTGERS.EDU