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From: les@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Les Earnest)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: TeX pronounciation
Keywords: How, why?
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Date: 8 Sep 88 18:03:29 GMT
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In article <Sep.8.09.09.55.1988.1942@elbereth.rutgers.edu>
cje@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Cthulhu's Jersey Epopt) writes:
>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".

It is usually pronounced "la tech" around the Stanford Computer Science
Department.

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