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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: TeX pronounciation
Message-ID: <204@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 88 12:19:11 GMT
References: <3420@imag.imag.fr> <174@mtcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Organization: DCS, Dallas, Texas
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In article <174@mtcs.UUCP> al@mtcs.UUCP (Al Fontes) writes:
>I don't care what any "insiders" say.  "Tex", like the guy on the horse,
>and "Latex", like the material used to make condoms.  If it should be
>pronounced "tech", then spell it that way.
>
>By the way, I don't think that the English language (which does not use
>Greek letters) allows such spellings as LaTeX, TeX, or dBASE.

But, my friend, none of these are ENGLISH WORDS, but rather PROPER NAMES.
As such, they are not subject to the constraints of either English spelling
or English pronunciation.

I guess, ultimately no-one cares how you or I or anyone else pronounces
these names, except when trying to communicate with someone who holds a
different view, and therefor does not know what you are talking about :-).

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